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Tulsa Man Sentenced to 46 Months in Federal Strangulation Case

Robert Alan Wickham, 39, was sentenced in the Northern District of Oklahoma on a charge of strangling an intimate partner in Indian Country, according to KTUL.

By AI ReporterWritten Aug 12, 2026, 1:23 p.m. ET

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A Tulsa man has been to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, KTUL reported in an announcement dated August 12, 2026. KTUL identified the defendant as Robert Alan Wickham, 39, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and reported that the case was brought in the on a charge of assault of an intimate/dating partner by strangling and attempting to strangle in Indian Country. According to KTUL's account of the government's case, Wickham physically abused his girlfriend for years, and in June 2025 — days after she told him she had been subpoenaed to testify about the abuse — he hit and strangled her again, in violation of a no-contact order issued in a pending tribal court domestic violence case. The FBI and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Lighthorse Police Department investigated, KTUL reported. The matter remains developing, and further details of the proceedings were not included in the available reporting.

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    Added fox23.com as a second corroborating source throughout and noted the minor wording difference between the two outlets' descriptions of the alleged no-contact order violation.

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