Grant County Deputies Testify in Federal Trail

On the evening of 7/24/2023 The Grant County Sheriff's Office received an attempt to locate vehicle request from Dubuque in reference to a fight that occurred at a campground where a knife was brandished. Two suspects fled the area in a gray Chevrolet Silverado and were believed to be in Grant County.  

A short time later two Grant County Deputies located the suspect vehicle on Cty D, south of Platteville. The two suspects, Mose Smith, 42, of Stilwell, Ok, and Kimberly Gilbert, 41, of Gans, OK, had abandoned the vehicle and were located walking on Cty D approximately a mile from where the truck was abandoned. When the license plates of the vehicle were ran there was a hit on the vehicle associated with a missing person from Salisaw Oklahoma. The Grant County Deputies worked with investigators from Dubuque Iowa and Sequoya County Oklahoma. Grant County Deputies interviewed Smith and Gilbert, collected evidence and seized the truck in the course of the investigation. It was later determined that the missing person associated with the vehicle that Smith and Gilbert were driving, was deceased.  

On 4/6/2025 the two Grant County Deputies that assisted in the investigation traveled to Muskogee Oklahoma to testify in federal court, where Mose Smith was found guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter by a federal jury.  

FEDERAL JURY CONVICTS STILWELL RESIDENT OF VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER 

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of  Oklahoma announced today that Mose Adam Smith, age 43, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was found guilty  by a federal jury of Voluntary Manslaughter in Indian Country, punishable by up to 15 years  imprisonment and a fine up to $250,000.00.  

The jury trial began with testimony on April 7, 2025, and concluded on April 10, 2025, with the  guilty verdict. 

During the trial, the United States presented evidence that on or about July 17, 2023, Smith  unlawfully killed an individual during an altercation at the victim’s Sallisaw, Oklahoma residence.  The Government presented evidence that during the altercation, Smith inflicted blunt-force trauma on the victim, and that Smith caused extensive injuries resulting in the death of the victim. Smith  attempted to conceal the victim’s death and fled the state. The crime occurred in Sequoyah County,  within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation Reservation of Oklahoma, in the Eastern District of  Oklahoma.  

On March 19, 2025, Co-defendant Kimberly Dawn Ball-Gilbert, age 42, of Stilwell, Oklahoma,  pleaded guilty to an Information of one count of Voluntary Manslaughter. At the plea hearing, Ball Gilbert admitted to aiding and abetting Smith’s actions in causing the victim’s death. 

The guilty verdict was the result of investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the  Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office, the Grant County, Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office, and the Wisconsin  State Crime Laboratory.  

The Honorable Ronald A. White, Chief U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for  the Eastern District of Oklahoma, presided over the trial and ordered the completion of a presentence  report. The sentencings for Smith and Ball-Gilbert will be scheduled following completion of the  presentence reports. The Court will sentence the defendants after considering the U.S. Sentencing  Guidelines and other statutory factors. 

Smith and Ball-Gilbert will remain in the custody of the United States Marshals until sentencing. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Patrick M. Flanigan and Lewis M. Reagan represented the United