Corey Jones, a 48-year-old inmate from New York, has been handed down a sentence of an additional 46 months in federal prison for issuing threats against a federal law enforcement officer. This sentence is to run consecutively with his current incarceration, which began as a result of assaulting federal officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma said.
The incident that led to this new sentence occurred on March 25, 2025, while Jones was behind bars at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. It was there that he threatened to “stab and murder” an FTC prison guard. Jones has a noted pattern of criminal violence; beyond this threat, he was in custody for assaulting federal officers in New York and Illinois, as detailed in public records.
A federal grand jury formally charged Jones with threatening a federal law enforcement officer on April 16, 2025. By September 4, Jones had entered a guilty plea, admitting to his intent to “assault and murder a federal law enforcement officer by stabbing him to death.”…