On Friday, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics served a search warrant at HotStar Farm LLC in Jennings as part of an ongoing investigation into obtaining an OBN registration by fraud using a straw ownership.
OBN agents seized 34,263 live plants and 378 pounds of processed marijuana.
Over 34,000 plants seized in Pawnee County marijuana farm search, 4 people in ICE custody (Photo:Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics)
Since 2021, agents have shut down more than 6,000 illegal marijuana farms tied to b lack market trafficking and fraud straw ownership schemes.
In 2022, 8,400 farms were operating with an active OBN registration. Today, that number stands around 2,100.
Citizens can anonymously report criminal drug and human trafficking activity to OBN’s tip line at 800-522-8031 or send OBN a Facebook direct message.
