CORVIN ADMITS GUILT IN DRUG CASE

ADA - A former Ada assistant police chief faces as many as 25 years in
prison for his guilty pleas in a drug case, U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling
said Wednesday.

Dennis Edmond Corvin, 40, admitted establishing a drug manufacturing
operation and possessing a firearm during and in relation to drug
trafficking. Corvin was arrested Feb. 23 following an investigation by Troy
Jack and Tommy Cunningham of the District 22 Drug Task Force led by
assistant district attorney Chris Ross. Gary Perkinson of the Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation, the Ada Police Department and the Pontotoc
County Sheriff's Office also assisted in the arrest of Corvin.

Corvin worked for the Ada Police Department, retiring in 1999 as assistant
police chief.

U.S. Attorney Sheldon J. Sperling said Wednesday that Corvin had entered
pleas of guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Oklahoma at Muskogee to a two-count felony.

"The defendant is a former Ada police officer," Sperling said. "District
Attorney investigators in (District Attorney) Bill Peterson's office were
committed to an appropriate resolution of this case."

Officials of the U.S. Department of Justice praised the efforts of the Drug
Task Force for their efforts.

"Investigators parlayed information from confidential informants and other
sources regarding methamphetamine being manufactured at Corvin's residence
in Ada," assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis A. Fries.

Fries said Task Force officers obtained a search warrant for the Corvin
residence and found marijuana, methamphetamine, chemicals and equipment
used to manufacture methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and firearms, which
were seized by officers during the Feb. 23 raid.

A search of Corvin's home earlier this year turned up marijuana,
methamphetamine, manufacturing ingredients, drug paraphernalia and firearms.

Authorities said they discovered Corvin was selling drugs while talking to
a confidential informant involved in the methamphetamine trade. The
informant and the former law officer were planning to cook methamphetamine
together, authorities alleged.

He will be sentenced in federal court in Muskogee upon completion of a
presentence investigation.

Corvin was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal.

"Corvin faces a possible term of imprisonment of up to 20 years for
maintaining a place to manufacture methamphetamine and a consecutive
non-parolable 5-year prison term for possessing a firearm during a drug
crime," Sperling said.

Jack had been investigating drug activities of another individual when
Corvin's name surfaced.

Three other suspects were arrested on drug charges during the Colvin
investigation.