11,269 marijuana plants seized in Ponca City grow raid, five charged
Oklahoma's Organized Crime Task Force and partner agencies raided an unlicensed marijuana grow at 3880 W South Avenue in Ponca City on 9 April 2025, seizing 11,269 plants and 477 pounds of processed marijuana. Five people at the scene were charged with aggravated manufacturing and trafficking.
🇺🇸 3880 W South Avenue, Ponca City, Kay County · Oklahoma, United States
Arrested
5
Charged
5
Plants destroyed
11,269
Cannabis
216.36 kg
Agencies
Oklahoma Attorney General's Organized Crime Task Force, Kay County Sheriff's Office +3
Oklahoma’s Organized Crime Task Force and partner agencies raided a marijuana grow facility at 3880 W South Avenue in Ponca City on 9 April 2025, arresting five people and confiscating more than 11,000 illegal plants.[1][2]
The sweep yielded 11,269 plants and 477 pounds (about 216.4 kg) of processed marijuana.[1][2]The raid was a joint effort of the task force with the Kay County Sheriff’s Office, Ponca City police, the district attorney’s drug task force, the Oklahoma National Guard, the FBI and immigration officers.[1][2]
Investigators said the site showed no sign of legal operation: it held no active medical-marijuana licence, no narcotics-bureau registration and no legally tagged plants.[1][2]Attorney General Gentner Drummond said the marijuana was likely headed for the black market.[1][2]
Those arrested, aged 37 to 62, were each charged withaggravated manufacturing of marijuana and trafficking a controlled substance.[1][2]One of them was found with clothing resembling a Chinese People’s Liberation Army uniform.[1]
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The raided Ponca City grow facility, as pictured by News 9.Photo details
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