Erin Nicole Hodge, a 30-year-old resident of Wewoka, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The sentencing was announced by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
The incident took place on February 10, 2024, outside a business in Seminole, Oklahoma. According to investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Seminole Nation Lighthorse Police Department, Hodge bit the victim on the face during a confrontation. The crime occurred within Seminole County and inside the boundaries of the Seminole Nation Reservation.
Hodge entered her guilty plea on August 12, 2025, in federal district court. The case was heard by Chief U.S. District Judge John F. Heil III in Muskogee. Hodge will remain in custody with the U.S. Marshals Service until she is transported to a facility designated by the United States Bureau of Prisons to serve her sentence, which does not allow for parole.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan E. Soverly represented the prosecution.
