Source: Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office
The state’s Organized Crime Task Force raided two illegal marijuana grow operations and two processing facilities Wednesday and arrested several people, said Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
Agents raided KMA 2021 in Tulsa, Wanna-Dab Labs in Tulsa and Danky McNuggy Medical Group in Claremore and Tulsa.
Several suspects were arrested, and more than 58,920 plants and 1,350 pounds of processed marijuana were seized.
Nine illegal immigrants were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported.
“We are making communities across the state safer each time we shut down an illegal marijuana grow operation,” Drummond said in a statement Thursday.
“I appreciate our partnership with the Trump administration to work with ICE to deport illegal immigrants who are involved in these operations and to build a more secure Oklahoma.”
Among those arrested were Qiu Cheng Chen, also known as Sam Chen, and his wife, Xiufeng Lin, also known as Linda Lin, of Jenks.
The couple was arrested on complaints of conspiracy to defraud the state, conspiracy to manufacture a controlled dangerous substance (marijuana), aggravated manufacturing of CDS (marijuana) in both Tulsa and Rogers counties and a pattern of criminal offenses.
Chen and Lin are accused of operating a drug trafficking organization, beginning in 2024, that used straw ownership schemes to unlawfully obtain, register and operate multiple medical marijuana businesses in Tulsa and Rogers counties. Straw ownership schemes are used to conceal the true ownership of properties and businesses.
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