Kevin Paul Pham, one of three men indicted by an Oklahoma multicounty grand jury on 13 felony counts accusing them of filing fraudulent documents for illegal marijuana farms, is listed as the r egistered agent for Blessed Chickasha Collective.
Blessed Chickasha Collective filed suit against Chickasha businessman and property owner Brannan Bordwine individually; his Bordwine Urban and Rural Development LLC; Bordwine 963PPRD; and Bordwine Development LLC; along with Liquid Latitude LLC a/k/a Latitude Liquids LLC.
The plaintiff sued for negligence and breach of contract because of a f ire in August 2022 that consumed a large volume of flammable hand sanitizer “improperly stored” at the former Chickasha Manufacturing site, 5501 S. Fourth Street (U.S. Highway 81 and state Highway 19).
Brannan Bordwine “entered into an oral lease” of that property from Blessed Chickasha Collective in June 2022. A condition of the lease was that Bordwine’s operations were to be conducted “in a safe manner which would protect [the] property from damage.”
The fire broke out on Aug. 7, 2022, and burned for several days. Methanol-laced hand sanitizer at the site was so volatile that when the fire erupted, cast-iron lids on two manholes were blown off and the municipal sanitary sewer briefly caught fire from sanitizer that flowed into the line, state and local fire officials reported.
During the fire, a warehouse at the site and its contents were “a total loss” and flames consumed all hand sanitizer stored at the site, the State Fire Marshal’s office confirmed. The building reportedly encompassed approximately 100,000 square feet of space.
The lawsuit was filed in Grady County District Court 15 months ago by Oklahoma City attorney R. Lyle Clemens. A pre-trial conference in the case is set for Sept. 12 and a jury trial is scheduled for Nov. 1.
Southwest Ledger called the offices of Clemens and Pham and left messages, asking whether they have any knowledge of what Blessed Chickasha Collective does and who its principals are. Neither Pham nor Clemens returned the Ledger’s phone calls.
Details about Blessed Chickasha Collective are scant, although records of the Oklahoma Secretary of State show it is a domestic limited liability company incorporated in December 2020.
Citing Pham’s record, AG proposed $1M bond Assistant state Attorney General Taylor Brown informed Kingfisher County District Judge Lance Schneiter that Pham “prepared and presented” falsified documents to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs regarding the owners of the Liu & Chen marijuana farm near Hennessey, where four Chinese nationals were gunned down and a fifth was wounded in November 2022.
Pham’s documents claimed the owners of Liu & Chen Inc. were Richard Ignacio and Yi Fei Lin; the latter was shot and wounded in the attack that was perpetrated by Chen Wu, of Hennessey.
State drug agents raided Pham’s accounting office in Oklahoma City two days after the quadruple homicide at the Kingfisher County marijuana farm. Pham “represents a serious threat to the community,” Brown asserted.
Pham “repeatedly prepared and submitted … knowingly false documentation” to state agencies in order to establish marijuana farms throughout the state “that are owned and operated by non-residents, contrary to the laws of Oklahoma,” Brown reported. Those fake owners live in other states, including Massachusetts, Iowa, Virginia and California, according to the OBNDD.
Pham “directly aided or promoted the formation and operation of numerous illegal grows throughout Oklahoma” that are “diverting massive amounts of dangerous controlled substances out of the state,” Brown wrote.
Moreover, Brown noted, Pham has been convicted of 21 felony crimes in Okl ahoma dating back to 1997, when he pleaded guilty to second-degree burglary. In 2002 he was charged with operating a motor vehicle “chop shop” in Oklahoma County and subsequently was convicted.
In 2006 Pham pleaded guilty to nine counts of burglary and 10 counts of concealing stolen property in a case f iled in 2003. H e received a suspended seven- year prison sentence on the burglary charges and a five-year suspended prison sentence on the sto len property charges. However, he was ordered to serve 52 weekends at Avalon Correctional Services in Oklahoma City and to pay restitution.