When a small, illegal medical marijuana grow operation was discovered near Fairmont by the Office of the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal earlier this year, everybody soon got to work.

After the state notified the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Cory Rink said the two agencies together contacted the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics.

The three agencies then worked together and helped shut down the growing operation, which had begun growing marijuana plants before obtaining a commercial license, Rink said.

“Obviously, we got a search warrant for the property based on the information that we had from the other law enforcement entity,” he said. “We went in, executed the search warrant, confiscated all the illegal plants, and, of course, we tagged them as evidence … and then OBN took those plants and properly destroyed them.”

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