CRIME OSBI: (4) Victims killed in Kingfisher Co. were executed (North Central Oklahoma, chinese marijuana grow farm)

[1911user]

OSBI: Victims killed in Kingfisher Co. were executed

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the four people killed Sunday near Hennessey were executed.

kfor.com

OSBI: Victims killed in Kingfisher Co. were executed

by: Kaylee Douglas/KFOR
Posted: Nov 22, 2022 / 03:27 PM CST
Updated: Nov 22, 2022 / 05:49 PM CST

KINGFISHER COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the four people killed Sunday near Hennessey were executed.

An investigation is underway in Kingfisher County after four people were found dead and another hurt following a violent attack at a marijuana grow farm.

The OSBI said at approximately 5:45 p.m. Nov. 20, a male suspect entered a building on the property near EW 600 and NS 2760.

He was inside that building for ‘a significant amount of time’ before executing several employees inside.

Three men and one woman – all Chinese Nationals – were shot execution-style. Another person, also Chinese, was shot multiple times and flown to OU Health.

“Based on the investigation thus far, this does not appear to be a random incident,” said OSBI officials. “Law enforcement believes releasing the identity of the suspect at this time will put additional individuals in danger.”

However, authorities say they believe the suspect to be another Chinese National.

Officials say next of kin notification is pending due to a language barrier.

 

[1911user]

Original Article from yesterday:

Four dead, one hurt after alleged hostage situation in Kingfisher Co.

An investigation is underway in Kingfisher County after four people were found dead and another hurt following a violent attack at a marijuana grow farm.

kfor.com

Four dead, one hurt after alleged hostage situation in Kingfisher Co.

by: Katelyn Ogle/KFOR, Kaitor Kay/KFOR
Posted: Nov 21, 2022 / 05:11 PM CST
Updated: Nov 22, 2022 / 06:44 AM CST

KINGFISHER COUNTY, Okla. (KFOR) – An investigation is underway in Kingfisher County after four people were found dead and another hurt following a violent attack at a marijuana grow farm.

“Last night, the Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Office responded to this location on a hostage situation when they arrived at the situation, it turned deadly,” said Captain Stan Florence, with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

OSBI agents investigating 4 dead in Kingfisher County

The OSBI said on Sunday night, Kingfisher County deputies responded to the grow, near EW 600 and NS 2760 just north of Lacey.

There, they found four people, men and women, dead somewhere on the 10-acre farm.

“Can you tell us if this was an international grow operation?” asked News 4. “It appears to be,” replied Capt. Florence.

A fifth victim was hurt.

While Jack Quirk, a journalist with the local paper, All About Hennessey, was on scene last night, he helped firefighters set up a landing pad, so that victim could be flown to OU Health.

“Life EMS brought out a gentleman that had been shot twice, loaded him on the medical helicopter and flew him to a medical center,” said Quirk. “While we were at the landing zone, which is about a half a mile from here, they held the fire department back while the sheriff’s department was investigating.”

All night and morning long, investigators had eyes from the skies and on the ground.

OBN drug agents used huge drones, while OHP searched from a helicopter. Armed agents went from building to building to search for suspects.

They didn’t have any luck – however, investigators say they do have a suspect in mind.

“Don’t know if they’re related, don’t know if they were coworkers, but, certainly these individuals or we believe all familiar with each other,” replied Capt. Florence.

Officials have not released the suspect’s name or any other information about them.

The OSBI said they have found a grow license, but it’s up to the OBN to determine if it is current.

 

[Millwright]

I've been wondering when this would start.

One known chicom grow-op within 10 miles.

No clue as to how many out in the woods.

Own the night.

 

[Capt. Eddie]

Why in the **** are Chinese nationals growing weed in OK?

 

[Kewpie]

WOW, this is crazy! A few of my friends are involved in some grow operations and/or have store fronts in OK. I need to pester some of them and ask if they know anything about it.

 

[Kewpie]

Why in the **** are Chinese nationals growing weed in OK?

That’s a damn good question!

 

[Millwright]

They are buying lotsa big tracts of land.

This doesn't thrill me.

 

[Kewpie]

I knew about the buying of land, but this is the first I’ve heard of actual grow operations being staffed with Chinese nationals. Mexican and South Americans, sure, but Chinese?

 

[Donna_in_OK]

Who knows what they were putting into the soil or onto the plants. There had been a big deal about some tainted product that hit the stores sometime last year I believe. I saw it on the local news. I think that is when they tried to change the law to say you have to be a US Citizen to own the land and the grow business. Wonder if the Chinese gangs are starting to move in?

Oh, and I find it funny that they are saying they have a language barrier with the one. Go to Norman and pick up a few of his pals and I'm sure they can translate.

 

[Millwright]

Wonder if the Chinese gangs are starting to move in?

I did a quick search, nothing jumped out as confirmation.

There are articles about them in other places.

Assume it's the case here and you won't be surprised.

 

[1911user]

Also in the north central OK area from this summer. This was less than 60 miles from the farm killings in the OP.

Trooper recovers nearly 400 pounds of marijuana in traffic stop, driver charged with trafficking

A California man is being charged with drug trafficking after an Oklahoma Highway Patrol traffic stop in Payne County led to the discovery of nearly 400 pounds of marijuana in

www.stwnewspress.com

Trooper recovers nearly 400 pounds of marijuana in traffic stop, driver charged with trafficking

By Beau Simmons bsimmons@stwnewspress.com
Aug 12, 2022

A California man is being charged with drug trafficking after an Oklahoma Highway Patrol traffic stop in Payne County led to the discovery of nearly 400 pounds of marijuana in the back of a moving truck.

Xin Sun, 54, was charged Aug. 9 in Payne County District Court with one count of trafficking. If convicted he faces a minimum of 10 years in prison up to life.

Trooper Ryan Long wrote that he was patrolling near Highway 51 west of Stillwater when his radar detected a U-Haul exceeding the speed limit.

According to the probable cause affidavit, Long initiated the stop without incident and found one man driving, later identified as Sun. Long said he could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from the truck. When asked, Long said the driver told him he was transporting furniture. Long said he asked the driver to open the cargo area. Long said he immediately smelled marijuana and observed many large moving-type boxes before detaining Sun and continuing his search.

Long wrote that after opening boxes he found several individually packaged vacuum-sealed plastic bags of a green, leafy substance. In one box, he counted 22 individual bags. Through a translator app on his phone, Long said he read Sun his Miranda rights, and Sun agreed to talk to him. According to his report, Sun told Long he did not have a medical marijuana transportation license and he was being paid to deliver the marijuana from Stillwater to an unknown address in Oklahoma City. Long said Sun told him he could not tell him who his boss was, where he worked and he was supposed to get a new address for delivery after he arrived in Oklahoma City.

Long said he eventually uncovered 14 boxes of marijuana with 295 individual bundles adding up to about 360 pounds.

Sun appeared in court Wednesday where bond was set at $100,000. He is scheduled for his next appearance Aug. 17.

 

[thompson]

Had kin who lived there, but it's been years ago. I would not have thought that area as being "friendly" to a grow operation, much less an international one staffed by Chinese.

 

[1911user]

From 2021, again about 60 miles from the farm killings.

Chinese busted in Oklahoma, buying land and growing marijuana for black market

Chinese busted in Oklahoma, buying land and growing marijuana for black market

April 25, 2021 1:50 pm by IWB

The OBN says it took 11 people into custody who they believe were from Taiwan and China and did not speak English.

State Senator Casey Murdoch authored a bill that would require medical marijuana businesses to disclose any foreign investments.

Murdoch lives in the panhandle and says foreign nationals have been buying up land, paying more than its worth in cash, and growing marijuana.

“Our concern is that there are marijuana licensees that are the fronts for these foreign-financed and operating activities,” Hunter said.

Last month, the attorney general’s office wrote a letter to sheriffs around the state alerting them to instances of landowners being offered large sums of cash for their land by people from foreign countries like China who ask to keep the land in their names.

okcfox.com/news/local/ag-says-new-law-could-curb-black-market-marijuana-sales

“We are probably seizing 10,000 – 15,000 plants that are in about 15 greenhouses here on the property, as well as 60-100 pounds of finished product that’s bagged up that’s ready for sell,” said Mark Woodward, Spokesperson for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics. “This is being sold on the streets in simple terms, it’s ending up all on the black market directly from the farm. These are criminals and they’re operating a criminal organization.”

“It’s our understanding from talking to at least one of them that they’re from Twain and China and we have interpreters who are interviewing them,” said Woodward.

A second warrant is being served on a home north of the grow operation where the 10 people were living.

okcfox.com/news/local/10-arrested-in-guthrie-marijuana-grow-operation-raid

 

[Donna_in_OK]

Had kin who lived there, but it's been years ago. I would not have thought that area as being "friendly" to a grow operation, much less an international one staffed by Chinese.

I'm surprised at how many have popped up all over. Sometimes, people offer what some can't refuse. There are reports on the local news all the time about illegal grows being raided by the state. Since it has received state approval for medical, the state created another level of government to manage it. I know Fentanyl has been caught in hundreds if not thousands of times more than last year, some even in schools. I wouldn't put it past them to put it on their grow and sell it. Apparently there is a underground market, but I believe the state is starting to crack down on that as well.

 

[Kewpie]

Had kin who lived there, but it's been years ago. I would not have thought that area as being "friendly" to a grow operation, much less an international one staffed by Chinese.

Medical marijuana is legal there now. I grew up in Oklahoma and go up to Broken Bow frequently. It’s been almost funny to see how quick dispensaries popped up in such a small town.

 

[Millwright]

Medical marijuana is legal there now. I grew up in Oklahoma and go up to Broken Bow frequently. It’s been almost funny to see how quick dispensaries popped up in such a small town.

There's pot shops at cross roads in the middle of nowhere.

 

[1911user]

Recreational marijuana was almost on the November voting ballot here 2 weeks ago. The state took a little longer than normal this summer to verify petition signatures and just barely missed (oops.....) the August deadline for November voting. It will be on the next state election.

The petitioners sued to get it on the Nov. ballot anyway, but the state supreme court denied it.

 

[thompson]

I'm surprised at how many have popped up all over. Sometimes, people offer what some can't refuse. There are reports on the local news all the time about illegal grows being raided by the state. Since it has received state approval for medical, the state created another level of government to manage it. I know Fentanyl has been caught in hundreds if not thousands of times more than last year, some even in schools. I wouldn't put it past them to put it on their grow and sell it. Apparently there is a underground market, but I believe the state is starting to crack down on that as well.

Really hate hearing that.

 

[Jaybird]

A lot of the grow operations blow up over night. They aren't licensed to grow medical marijuana. They grow as much as they can for as long as they can. Law enforcement is slowly checking every one of them. When the cops show up they disappear overnight. Leave an abandoned grow facility and move to a new site. The license is the rub. We have so many grow facilities it takes forever to run down if they are legal or not. We need to restrict foreign nationals from buying land in the U.S. just like every other nation on earth does.

 

[Jaybird]

I'm surprised at how many have popped up all over. Sometimes, people offer what some can't refuse. There are reports on the local news all the time about illegal grows being raided by the state. Since it has received state approval for medical, the state created another level of government to manage it. I know Fentanyl has been caught in hundreds if not thousands of times more than last year, some even in schools. I wouldn't put it past them to put it on their grow and sell it. Apparently there is a underground market, but I believe the state is starting to crack down on that as well.

Fentanyl is the number one problem we are having in our area. Sheriffs in the surrounding counties have all said the same thing. It's bad.

 

[Jaybird]

There's pot shops at cross roads in the middle of nowhere.

I guess McCurtain County gold isn't the standard anymore?

 

[Millwright]

I guess McCurtain County gold isn't the standard anymore?

Down there?

They have bigfoot working the grow-ops.

 

[mzkitty]

Published: Nov. 22, 2022 at 11:13 AM EST|Updated: moments ago

(AP) - The suspect in the weekend killings of four people at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma was arrested in the afternoon by officers in South Florida, police announced late Tuesday.

Wu Chen was taken into custody without incident just before 4 p.m. Central time by Miami Beach police and taken to the Miami-Dade County Detention Center, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said in an evening post on Facebook.

The arrest came “after a car tag reader flagged vehicle he was driving,” it added. The suspect will be charged with murder and shooting with intent to kill and faces extradition to Oklahoma.

OSBI also posted a photo provided by U.S. Marshals of the man sitting shoeless on a curb, apparently with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Authorities said the victims — three men and one woman, all Chinese citizens — were shot dead and “executed” on the 10-acre (4-hectare) property west of Hennessey, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) northwest of Oklahoma City. A fifth victim who is also a Chinese citizen was wounded and taken to an Oklahoma City hospital.

The victims had not yet been identified and next-of-kin notification was still pending “because of a significant language barrier,” police said.

Authorities had said previous they had a suspect in mind but were withholding the name for the time being to avoid endangering others.

“The suspect was inside that building for a significant amount of time before the executions began,” OSBI said in a news release Tuesday. “Based on the investigation thus far, this does not appear to be a random incident.”

OSBI Capt. Stan Florence said the previous day that authorities believed the suspect knew the victims, who were found dead Sunday night.

“They all know each other,” Florence said. “Don’t know if they’re related, or if they’re coworkers, but certainly these individuals were, we believe, all familiar with each other.”

The case is being investigated as a quadruple homicide. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control is also investigating.

The agency has targeted criminal growing and trafficking of marijuana for the black market in recent years. But agency spokesman Mark Woodward said Tuesday it was too soon to say that was a focus of this investigation.

“It being a marijuana farm, obviously Oklahoma state law requires that they have a license from the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority and from us,” Woodward said. “One of the things we’re looking at is, is it obtained legally or was it obtained by fraud? So that’ll be part of our investigation.”

Porsha Riley, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority, said there is an active license for a medical marijuana grow business at the location.

None of the 14 marijuana growing operations in the Hennessey area responded to email inquiries from The Associated Press, and officials would not identify which one operated at the site of the shootings.

The Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Office initially responded to a reported hostage situation at the farm and requested help from state authorities, Florence said.

Police searched the property late Sunday and Monday, using drones and helicopters and on the ground, but did not find the suspect, Florence said.

“There’s a lot to unravel with this case,” he said. “It’ll take a little time for us to process it.”

Oklahoma voters legalized medical marijuana in 2018, and the industry quickly boomed thanks to an open-ended law that put in place fewer restrictions than in other states.

In March, voters will decide whether to legalize recreational use of the drug.

Maryland and Missouri approved recreational marijuana in this month’s midterm elections, bringing the total number states that allow recreational use to 21. Arkansas, North Dakota and South Dakota voters rejected legalization proposals in the midterms.

Oklahoma police: Suspect nabbed in killings of 4 at pot farm

Four people killed at an Oklahoma marijuana farm over the weekend were “executed,” state police said Tuesday. Investigators also said the dead were Chinese citizens.

www.kwch.com

 

[Matt]

Kinda makes me take on a new appreciation for OSHA..my employer has some faults... putting a bullet in my dome isn't among them.

Remember kids.. this is the world the leftists desire for us all! Treat your local leftists accordingly when the lights go out!

 

[Millwright]

Wu Chen was taken into custody without incident just before 4 p.m. Central time by Miami Beach police and taken to the Miami-Dade County Detention Center,

Was he planning a swim to Cuba?

 

[Kewpie]

Besides the obvious red flags here…anyone else slightly unnerved by the phrase ‘a tag reader flagged the vehicle’? Like holy hell, we really ARE being spied on 24/7.

Can’t we just have our legal weed without people trying to turn it into an international drug smuggling ring??

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS!!!

 

[Dozdoats]

So this is why we are getting chynese police stations?

 

[Capt. Senile]

Could be that the Chinese grow Op is being targeted by the Cartels, also.

 

[pauldingbabe]

Down there?

They have bigfoot working the grow-ops.

Pay his salary in Jack Links....



Bigfoot got munchies

 

[Hermantribe]

Happened 2 years ago in rural Riverside County. Laotian immigrants illegally brought into the US to grow weed

7 killed at large-scale California marijuana operation

More than 20 people lived on the property, which had several makeshift dwellings, a nursery and vehicles used in production, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said.

www.usatoday.com

 

[KFhunter]

GTC


(Guess The Cartel)

 

[bracketquant]

Why in the **** are Chinese nationals growing weed in OK?

Because, in China it can mean a bullet in the head from the government, and the executed one's family has to pay for the bullet. Perhaps these poor souls knew that their families couldn't afford to pay for the bullets.

 

[Old Gray Mare]

We're they undercutting the Cartels from south of the boarder? Could be they don't like competition?

 

[Nancy in OK]

There are over 7600 legal (haha) grow farms in Oklahoma. There are 118 in my county. There is one a mile from my house that is Chinese. They fly drones down the road to check traffic. If you don’t have an honorable sheriff, nothing gets done. They have busted several very large grows around here But that was because OBN was involved.

 

[Nancy in OK]

They use a very large amount of electricity and water. They came in here offering very large amounts of money probably 3 or 4 years ago. They prefer the landowner keeps the land in their name. The guy who started the one closest to me was a Chinese from NY. They can’t drive worth a flip.

 

[etdeb]

Guess they did not have theTulsa King for protection.

 

[Millwright]

They use a very large amount of electricity and water. They came in here offering very large amounts of money probably 3 or 4 years ago. They prefer the landowner keeps the land in their name. The guy who started the one closest to me was a Chinese from NY. They can’t drive worth a flip.

Reports from gun shops of them dropping considerable cash in one stop.

 

[colonel holman]

Maine went legal. First medical grows and shops. More recently recreational grows and shops. There is literally a storefront every mile. You can see one shop from another shop. Will be an interesting lesson in capitalism based on supply and demand. The big problem is huge license fees, sales taxes, purity testing requirements, mandatory video monitoring of grows and shops, plus customers required to show IDs (builds lists of users so that legal gun sales can be denied) (they don’t do that for booze sales, however).

But on top of all that, individuals are allowed to grow their own… $25 for seeds and dirt, versus $250+ per ounce in stores?

Local cops and district attny recently busted for enormous commericial grow used to feed black market, which continues to flourish due to state imposing bureaucracy and costs on legal sales. Almost like it is on purpose.

 

[BadMedicine]

Own the night.

This is a very good quote / Suggestion.

The darkness is not scary. The darkness is your friend.

Around 10 years afo I lived near one of the largest chunks of uninhabited woods IN my town. Was near the dump and had a nice salmon stream going through it. Lots of bears and moose. Decided I needed to do more night trekking and use as minimal light as possible. Best thing I can recommend is a pair of yellow 3m safety glasses/ goggle so you don't get a stick in your eye. Never ran in to a bear at night, but walked right up on a few moose. I'd wear camo and bug dope or sufficiently covering clothing & mosquito nets so I could ignore bugs and be as still as possible when needed.

Being out at night, listening to the sounds. Creeeping around knowing YOU are the top predator in this food chain. YOU are the bear the bears worry about... I mean go armed of course! It's really nice to know you can get around in the dark, the dark becomes pretty light (if you stay away from things that will dialate your pupils- and intentionally look away from tehm even at distances..) And fear of being out 'in it' dissipate pretty quick. It would be good to get night adapted before you need the skill.

 

[TFergeson]

Who knows what they were putting into the soil or onto the plants. There had been a big deal about some tainted product that hit the stores sometime last year I believe. I saw it on the local news. I think that is when they tried to change the law to say you have to be a US Citizen to own the land and the grow business. Wonder if the Chinese gangs are starting to move in?