Unlicensed 24,000-plant farm shut down in Muskogee County
Oklahoma narcotics agents shut down an unlicensed 40-acre marijuana farm with 24,000 plants in Muskogee County, one of several black-market grows raided that June. Twenty to thirty workers lived in shanties on the farm without pay, in what agents treated as possible labor trafficking.
🇺🇸 Muskogee County, Oklahoma · Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents shut down a large unlicensed marijuana growing operation
on a 40-acre farm in Muskogee County on 14 June 2021, seizing control of a site holding
24,000 plants.[1][2]The owners had no licence to grow marijuana, which is legal in Oklahoma
only with the proper permit, and had made no effort to get one.[1][2]
Agents found 20 to 30 Hispanic men working on the farm who appeared to be victims of human
trafficking, living in makeshift shanties without electricity or running water and washing in
a stagnant creek.[1][2]The men said they had not been paid and expected a share of the
profits after harvest, and the bureau publicised the case as possible labor trafficking.[1][2]
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The raided Muskogee County grow. Photo: Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics via iHeartPhoto details
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