Four of the f ive Chinese nationals associated with marijuana farms in Maramec and Mulhall pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering conspiracy. Two of the four have been sentenced, but one of them fled the jurisdiction and has remained at-large for several months.
Yan Bing Wu, 46, was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison. Tongfei Wu, 34, was sentenced to 20 months in prison, but the day before he was to report to prison he removed his electronic monitoring device and still remains at-large, court records indicate.
Yuan Yuan Lo, alias Su Li, 31, and her husband, Liang Wu, 36, have not been sentenced yet, federal court records indicate. However, the court ordered their forfeiture of a house in Country Club Terrace in Edmond and ordered Lo and Wu to forfeit $239,450 in cash that investigators identified as “proceeds obtained as a result” of criminal activity.
The owner/operator of the marijuana farms, Jiu Bing Lin, alias Jack Lin, 46, pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for trial in Oklahoma City’s Western District federal court on the October 2024 docket.
Lin and his wife paid $690,000 for the marijuana farm at Maramec, in Pawnee County, records show.
Lin was indicted on 10 f elony charges of drug conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, four counts of laundering monetary instruments, and four counts of monetary transaction in criminally derived property. In the latter he is accused of depositing in a bank account multiple checks, each written in an amount in excess of $10,000 that was derived from illegal activity: buying, selling, and dealing in a controlled substance, marijuana.
A special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration submitted an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint accusing Lin of conspiring to manufacture and distribute 1,000 kilograms (2,204 pounds) or more of “a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of marijuana.”