Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office

OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 21, 2025) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) yesterday raided an illegal marijuana grow operation near Wilson, confiscating and eradicating approximately 15,000 marijuana plants and hundreds of pounds of processed marijuana. At the grow site, the Task Force discovered several illegal immigrants who were taken into the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

OCTF agents, with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Homeland Security Investigations’ Customs and Border Patrol and ICE, Oklahoma National Guard, Carter County Sheriff’s Office, Carter County District 3 Commissioner’s Office and the Wilson Fire Department, conducted the raid on Purple Light 168 LLC, which was operating without proper registration through the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. Agents also identified and seized body armor located at the grow site along with illegal Chinese pesticides that had been applied to the plants. 

Drummond said the operation points to the continued success and importance of the OCTF, which he established in 2023.

“The task force and our law enforcement partners are doing a tremendous job of eradicating the scourge of illegal marijuana operations in Oklahoma and breaking the back of organized crime,” Drummond said. “We are building safer communities across the state with every illegal marijuana grow we shut down and with every illegal immigration arrest we make. With the help of the Trump administration, we are able to successfully partner with ICE to secure our border and deport illegal immigrants who are involved in these grow operations and other crimes.”

Arrests are pending completion of the investigation.

When Drummond took office, more than 9,000 licenses marijuana grows were in Oklahoma. Now, fewer than 2,100 remain. The OCTF has seized more than 228,000 marijuana plants and more than 25,000 pounds of illegal marijuana.