On the morning of 29 October 2024, the Bryan County Sheriff’s Office, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized several dump trucks’ worth of marijuana plants from a warehouse just off Highway 70 in Mead.[1][2]
One search among many that day
Bryan County Undersheriff Joey Tucker said the Mead search was part of a bigger operation against illegal grows, with deputies serving multiple search warrants at locations across the county throughout the day.[1][2] Each seized plant would be photographed, weighed and prepared for disposal at a destruction site.[2]
Tucker said deputies pulled numerous people out of the Mead grow, people he described as having no reason to be growing marijuana in Oklahoma, but neither source confirms arrests or charges.[1][2]
Oversight and the environment
Tucker contrasted the site with licensed grows, saying the county knew what went into legal products and what waste came out of them, while unregulated sites left those questions unanswered.[1][2] He accused illegal grows of polluting waters and neighbourhoods and warned that their marijuana reached buyers without the testing licensed growers faced.[1][2] He said Oklahoma-grown marijuana was turning up in Texas, New Mexico and across the country.[1]
