State authorities on Tuesday seized 106,062 marijuana vegetation and arrested two individuals at an alleged black market operation in Ardmore.
Wen Bin Huang, 34, and Wen Zhao Huang, 37, had been arrested on a number of costs, together with aggravated trafficking in marijuana, authorities mentioned. They had been arraigned Wednesday in Carter County District Courtroom.
Officers with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Harmful Medicine Management mentioned the operation was a part of an ongoing investigation into the trafficking of marijuana out of state at a location on Smokey Ridge Street.
“In the course of the investigation, OBN brokers recognized people who had been going to the farm and illegally buying greater than 50 kilos of marijuana per go to,” OBN spokesman Mark Woodward mentioned in a press launch. “Moreover, we decided that the operators of this marijuana farm had been loading as a lot as 1,000 kilos of marijuana at a time into refrigerated semi-trucks that had been transporting the product to the black market in locations like New York Metropolis, Chicago and a part of Florida.”
Helping with the operation had been the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, the State Lawyer Common's Workplace and the Carter County Sheriff's Workplace.
Brokers additionally seized 1,120 kilos of processed marijuana.
“The Ardmore seizure is extraordinarily important, and is indicative of the great work OBN has finished to fight the proliferation of unlawful medication in Oklahoma,” Oklahoma Lawyer Common Gentner Drummond mentioned in a information launch. “I’m proud that my workplace's brokers have assisted on this effort, and I’m dedicated to persevering with the dear partnership with OBN that targets the Chinese language felony syndicates and Mexican drug cartels largely accountable for these unlawful progress operations “.
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