OKLAHOMA CITY – A raid on a large marijuana farm in Love County resulted in the seizure of thousands of marijuana plants and several hundred pounds of processed marijuana plus one arrest, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs announced.
The operators of Harvesting Valley LLC. farm at 25720 Batson Road, in Burneyville, an unincorporated community just north of the Red River, had been cultivating and trafficking large quantities of marijuana onto the black market, OBN spokesman Mark Woodward said.
“OBN agents conducted undercover purchases of marijuana from the operators of this grow facility,” Woodward said. “These defendants have ties to the targets of a marijuana trafficking investigation OBN conducted in 2022 that shut down Big Buddha farm in Wilson, Oklahoma.”
Agents served a search warrant at Harvesting Valley farm on Oct. 10 and confiscated 45,335 marijuana plants, more than 700 pounds of processed marijuana and made one arrest. “Additional arrests are expected as this investigation moves forward,” Woodward said.
Agents also found unsanitary living conditions and fire hazards that “jeopardized the health and safety of the workers at the facility,” Woodward said.
“Over the past two years my agency has created full-time Marijuana Enforcement Teams that have targeted not only the criminal organizations that operate these farms, but also those entities that commit fraud to obtain medical marijuana business licenses for these criminals,” said OBN Director Donnie Anderson.
Since 2021 the OBN has executed more than 800 search warrants, made more than 200 arrests, and seized nearly 700,000 pounds of marijuana during investigations into businesses operating with a license obtained by fraud, trafficking marijuana onto the black market, or both, Woodward said.