2,331 plants and $3.5m of marijuana seized from unlicensed Love County grow; 2 arrested
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents served a search warrant on an unlicensed Chinese-owned marijuana grow on the east side of Love County, Oklahoma, finding 2,331 plants across six structures that the sheriff's office valued at about $3.5 million, along with $65,000 in cash and checks. Two people were arrested on site for illegal cultivation.
🇺🇸 Love County, Oklahoma · Oklahoma, United States
Arrested
2
Plants destroyed
2,331
Cash confiscated
USD 65,000
Agencies
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics, Love County Sheriff's Office +1
Officers served a felonysearch warrant on an unlicensed, Chinese-owned and
operated marijuana grow on the east side of Love County, seizing the site.[1]The grow had six structures with plants at various stages of growth.[1]Officers seized$3.5 million in marijuana and $65,000 in cash and cashier’s
checks believed to be proceeds of illegal narcotics transactions.[1]Love
County Sheriff Marty Grisham said the search found 2,331 plants worth about
three and a half million dollars.[2]
Two people, Chong Chen and Zhimou Chen, were arrested on site on charges of
illegal cultivation of marijuana.[2]The grow was illegal because it held
neither an Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority licence nor an Oklahoma Bureau
of Narcotics licence.[2]The grow’s owner had tried to obtain an OMMA licence
but withdrew the application for unknown reasons before growing illegally.[1]
Photos and video
Hero photo from the seized Love County grow, published with the arrest coverage. Caption on page: '2 individuals were arrested on site for Illegal cultivation of Marijuana.' Photo credit: OBNPhoto details
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Open questions the AI reported
The 2,331 plants and the $3.5 million value are reported on one count for the whole site across six structures, so they cannot be assigned to a particular building.
No court outcome was reported; the two arrests were at the investigation stage with no plea, trial or sentence published.
KOKH dated the warrant service as Friday, 23 July 2021, while KXII described the raid as 'early this morning' and was published the evening of 22 July 2021; the two accounts are reconciled under the incident date 23 July 2021.
The two arrestees are named only in the KXII account; the KOKH article gives them as '2 individuals' without names.
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