MUSKOGEE — A Henryetta man facing multiple charges of violence in Okmulgee County District Court pleaded guilty in Muskogee’s federal district court to a charge of threatening to kill a federal agent and “feed him to his fish.”
Jason Mance Van Orsdol, 47, was indicted on two counts of threatening to assault and murder a federal law enforcement officer and a third charge of interstate transmission of a threatening communication. He pleaded guilty to the latter charge Wednesday.
Sept. 24, 2025, was a busy day for Van Orsdol.
He called the Tulsa field office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, asked to speak with Special Agent Lucas Keck, and demanded the return of his guns.
Keck informed the court that he told Van Orsdol most of his firearms were in the custody of the Henryetta Police Department, and that the lone gun in Keck’s “care and control” would be handed over to Van Orsdol’s attorney “soon.”
Van Orsdol demanded that Keck “take all of his firearms to his attorney by the end of the day.”
Their telephone conversation “concluded without any resolution,” Keck wrote.
The ATF agent said Van Orsdol called him again and claimed he would have his niece “file a police report saying ATF Agent Keck raped her,” so that Keck would be arrested. Keck reported Van Orsdol also claimed that if the ATF agent came to his residence, Van Orsdol would “kill him and feed him to his fish.”
Keck said he contacted the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office after those telephone conversations and was told that Van Orsdol “had made multiple calls with similar messages” to the Henryetta P.D. and the Okmulgee County S.O.
Additionally, Van Orsdol “repeatedly talked about firearms and ammunition,” which included “AK-47s and thousands of rounds of ammunition, in reference to law enforcement officers coming to his house.”
Keck reported that he knew of Van Orsdol’s “criminal history” prior to talking to the man. Multiple felony charges plus a misdemeanor were filed in Okmulgee County District Court against Van Orsdol last year.
•He was accused of shooting at one man, attempting to run over the same man and another person with a pickup, and feloniously pointing a firearm, all on March 27, 2025.
•On April 15, 2025, he was charged of beating a man with a Glock pistol and threatening to shoot him “between the eyes.”
•Two days later a protective order was filed against Van Orsdol in Okmulgee County District Court. No details were available in the court records.
•On April 28, 2025, Van Orsdol allegedly threatened — “verbally and through text messages” — to kill another man, “stating he would ‘end him slow, with a blade and in person,’” and told the man to “start planning your funeral.” A misdemeanor charge was filed in Okmulgee County in that case on Aug. 13, 2025, accusing Van Orsdol of threatening to perform an act of violence.
All of those charges are on hold while Van Orsdol awaits resolution of his federal case.
Meanwhile, Keck submitted an emergency disclosure request to U.S. Cellular for toll records associated with Van Orsdol’s telephone. They revealed that on Sept. 24, 2025, Van Orsdol called, in succeeding order: the Tulsa office of Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, the Oklahoma City office of Senator Mullin, the ATF Tulsa field office, Keck’s ATF office, Senator Mullin’s Washington, D.C., office, and the ATF Tulsa field office again. The next morning Van Orsdol called ATF’s OKC field office twice, at 8:43 a.m. and again two minutes later.
Subsequently Keck learned that on July 4, 2025, Van Orsdol attempted buy a .45-caliber pistol from a Tulsa gun dealer but was denied the purchase “due to being prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition” because of his pending criminal firearm charges.
Van Orsdol was indicted in Muskogee’s Eastern District federal court on Oct. 15, 2025, and pleaded guilty Wednesday to interstate transmission of a threatening communication. The two other felony charges were dismissed.
Magistrate Judge Jason A. Robertson accepted the plea and ordered a presentence investigation report. A U.S. District Court judge will impose a sentence later.
Afterward, Van Orsdol was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. He could be sentenced to five years in federal prison and fined $250,000.