Oklahoman
Authorities are investigating a drug trafficking ring that is alleged to have been run out of an Edmond home.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics launched the investigation after intercepting a package that was shipped to a home in the 18400 block of Las Meninas Drive.
A search warrant was served Tuesday at the home.
OBN Spokesman Mark Woodward said agents found ketamine powder inside the void spaces of fiber board panels.
“Ketamine abuse is spiking due to its cocaine-like euphoria, especially right now in China, which supplies about 60% of the world’s black market ketamine,” Woodward said in a statement.
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Officials with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics said their agents have shut down another farm in Logan County Monday morning that’s allegedly tied to a criminal organization cultivating black market marijuana.
By: Jennifer Pierce
CHOCTAW, Oklahoma -
A Choctaw man accused of human trafficking was arrested last week and returned to the Oklahoma County Detention Center after only a week of freedom.
A judge allowed Joel French to be released on a $500,000 cash bond last month.
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office is prosecuting French. They said he should have never been released from jail in the first place.
Last December, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics agents arrested French at his Choctaw home on complaints of human trafficking and pandering.
Brian Bates, the operator of JohnTV.com, canvased French s neighborhood with flyers warning residents of French’s alleged illegal business. At the time, the accused pimp was being held in jail on a $1 million bond.