MUSKOGEE, Okla. (KFOR) – Officers with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics say they had been in a position to bust one other unlawful marijuana develop operation however found one thing uncommon on the website.
On June 14, OBN brokers shut down a big unlawful marijuana rising operation in Muskogee County.
Officers with the company say the 40-acre farm had 24,000 vegetation, however the homeowners didn’t have a license to develop marijuana in Oklahoma.
Whereas on the farm, investigators additionally discovered 20 to 30 Hispanic males who had been potential victims of human labor trafficking.
“Whereas none of them willingly claimed to be a sufferer, these males had been pressured to dwell in deplorable circumstances. They stayed in make-shift shanties with out electrical energy or working water to the property. They seemed to be bathing and washing their garments in a lower than sanitary and stagnate creek/pond close by. Interviews revealed that they’d not been paid and had been instructed that may obtain a proportion of the earnings after the harvest,” mentioned OBN Spokesman Mark Woodward.
In case you have any info on the case, you’re requested to name the company at 1-800-522-8031.
