OBN seizes 79,157 plants in 10-grow statewide sweep
Between 27 September and 7 October 2022 the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics searched ten grow operations and one home across eight counties, seizing 79,157 plants, 3,139 pounds of processed marijuana and 16 firearms. Twenty people were arrested, with more arrests expected.
🇺🇸 Ten grow operations and one home in eight Oklahoma counties · Oklahoma, United States
Between 27 September and 7 October 2022, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, joined by Oklahoma National Guard troops, executed search warrants at ten marijuana cultivation businesses and one home in eight counties, in an operation aimed at criminal groups hiding behind the state’s medical-marijuana licences.[1][2]The counties were Canadian, Cleveland, Garvin, Kay, Okfuskee, Payne, Pontotoc and Seminole.[2]
Investigators seized 79,157 illegally cultivated plants, 3,139 pounds (about 1,424 kg) of processed marijuana and 16 firearms, and arrested twenty people, with more arrests expected as the investigations continued.[1][2]The Defense Department put the street value of the unlicensed cannabis at 9.7 million dollars.[2]Those arrested face complaints including drug trafficking, aggravated manufacturing, unlawful cultivation and acquiring proceeds from drug activity.[1][2]
The agency said the grows used paid front men with no real stake in the farms to obtain licences, then trafficked marijuana onto the illicit market while laundering millions of dollars worldwide.[1][2]By mid-October the bureau said it had shut down or served warrants at close to 200 farms with several hundred arrests, and was investigating well over 1,000 more farms.[1]
Photos and video
Oklahoma Army National Guard soldiers collect illegally grown marijuana plants in Pawnee County on 27 September 2022. Photo by Anthony Jones via Marijuana Venture.Photo details
Source: Marijuana Venture · archived copyOklahoma Army National Guard soldiers collect and transport illegally grown marijuana for destruction during the September to October 2022 operation. Photo via Marijuana Venture.Photo details
News 9 describes the push as covering the two weeks before 13 October while Marijuana Venture dates the operation 27 September to 7 October, and the report uses the dated range.
No breakdown of the 9.7 million dollar Defense Department valuation was published.
No court outcomes for the twenty people arrested are covered in these reports.
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