GUTHRIE, Okla. (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics carried out two raids Friday morning at a house and a medical marijuana farm in Logan County, seizing about ten to fifteen thousand vegetation attributable to legal exercise.
A pair months in the past, OBN acquired a tip that there was marijuana being bought in bulk on the black market.
Mark Woodward, spokesman for OBN, mentioned the enterprise in Guthrie seems authorized, nevertheless behind the scenes it’s a completely different story.
“We’re mainly this as a legal group that’s merely utilizing Oklahoma’s medical marijuana program to proceed to function their unlawful operation underneath the guise of a medical marijuana farm,” mentioned Woodward.
Woodward mentioned it’s laborious to say what number of vegetation had already been bought illegally.
“It’s clear from the proof right here on this facility that they’ve had a variety of harvests of a number of 1000’s of vegetation, probably fifteen to thirty thousand vegetation which might be unaccounted for, that ended up on the black market earlier than we ever received concerned, probably, judging by the proof that’s on this property,” mentioned Woodward.
State brokers positioned individuals on the premises who’re being taken in for questioning.
“We’ve received in all probability about 11 individuals inside the home, starting from potential homeowners to staff that we’re going to be interviewing,” mentioned Woodward. “We haven’t made any arrests at this level, however we actually anticipate that there might be some arrests.”
Woodward mentioned there are extra raids coming sooner or later.
“That is considered one of a number of operations that we’ve received occurring across the state,” mentioned Woodward.
Woodward advised Information 4 that the vegetation seized will probably be burned.
OBN is actively investigating to learn the way widespread this legal group was promoting their product.
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