TIMELINE FOR YOU COMING UP. JESS DAMON, THANK YOU. NEW AT SIX A FAKE AMAZON VAN OUT OF STATE LEADS TO A MASSIVE MARIJUANA BUST HERE IN OKLAHOMA. YOU SEE IT ALL HERE FROM THE OKLAHOMA BUREAU OF NARCOTICS. POLICE IN MISSOURI PULLED THIS OVER. THEY THOUGHT IT WAS OBVIOUSLY AN AMAZON VAN. THAT’S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. PULLED IT OVER FOR SPEEDING. THEY. FOUND 246 POUNDS OF ILLEGAL MARIJUANA INSIDE OF THOSE BOXES. POLICE LATER FOUND OUT IT CAME FROM A FARM IN MCCLAIN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. OBION TELLS US THE AMAZON VAN WAS FAKE, SAYING TRAFFICKERS ARE DISGUISING VANS AS COMMERCIAL DELIVERY VEHICLES TO COMMIT THEIR CRIMES UNDER THE RADAR IF THEY CAN MOVE DRUGS, THEY CAN MOVE WEAPONS, THEY CAN MOVE PEOPLE IN THESE DELIVERY VANS, WHETHER IT’S TIED TO AMAZON OR ANOTHER NATIONWIDE COMPANY USING FAKE VANS, THAT ON THE OUTSIDE WILL LOOK JUST LIKE THE REAL THING. AND SO THEY CAN BLEND IN. THEY COULD KIND OF MOVE THEIR PRODUCT IN PLAIN SIGHT AND NOBODY REALLY BAT AN EYE. IT LOOKED LIKE AN AMAZON VAN TO ME YESTERDAY, STATE AGENTS SEIZED MORE THAN 9000 MARIJUANA PLANTS AND 215 POUNDS OF PROCESSED MARIJUANA AT THIS FARM IN MCLEAN COUNTY, WHERE THE SHIPMENT FROM THE FAKE AMAZON VAN ORIGINATED. OBIO
OBN: Fake Amazon van found in Missouri leads to illegal marijuana operation in Lindsay
Arrests in connection with the investigation are pending
Authorities say an investigation into a fake Amazon van found in Missouri led Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents to an alleged illegal marijuana operation in Lindsay. On Monday, the OBN’s Marijuana Enforcement Team served a warrant at Bright Stones LLC in Lindsay as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal activity involving the marijuana grow facility, according to a news release. The investigation started in January when Missouri State Police stopped a fake Amazon van for several traffic violations after entering the state from Oklahoma.OBN spokesperson Mark Woodward said in the news release that law enforcement found 246 pounds of packaged marijuana in the van that had been picked up in Lindsay.>> Download the KOCO 5 App”OBN began an investigation into this black-market shipment and discovered Bright Stones LLC had obtained its license by fraud, using a ‘straw ownership’ scheme,” Woodward said in the news release. “The main target of this investigation has been linked to several other illegal marijuana operations in Oklahoma.”OBN agents seized 9,143 marijuana plants and 215 pounds of processed marijuana from the Lindsay grow facility on Monday. Arrests in connection with the investigation are pending.Top Headlines OCPD releases names of 4 victims, suspect found dead Monday morning at Yukon home Victims, suspect found dead after apparent quadruple murder-suicide at Yukon home: What we know Caught on camera: Alligator spotted outside a Florida doorstep ‘Everybody loved them’: Neighbors describe residents of Yukon home where 5 found deadPregnant woman walks out of second-story OKC apartment to find stairs gone
Authorities say an investigation into a fake Amazon van found in Missouri led Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents to an alleged illegal marijuana operation in Lindsay.
On Monday, the OBN’s Marijuana Enforcement Team served a warrant at Bright Stones LLC in Lindsay as part of an ongoing investigation into illegal activity involving the marijuana grow facility, according to a news release. The investigation started in January when Missouri State Police stopped a fake Amazon van for several traffic violations after entering the state from Oklahoma.
OBN spokesperson Mark Woodward said in the news release that law enforcement found 246 pounds of packaged marijuana in the van that had been picked up in Lindsay.
>> Download the KOCO 5 App
“OBN began an investigation into this black-market shipment and discovered Bright Stones LLC had obtained its license by fraud, using a ‘straw ownership’ scheme,” Woodward said in the news release. “The main target of this investigation has been linked to several other illegal marijuana operations in Oklahoma.”
OBN agents seized 9,143 marijuana plants and 215 pounds of processed marijuana from the Lindsay grow facility on Monday. Arrests in connection with the investigation are pending.
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