Authorities are investigating a double homicide discovered Friday afternoon at a marijuana grow northeast of Wynnewood.
Garvin County Sheriff Jim Mullett said deputies responded to a call at the property, near the intersection of East County Road 1600 and North County Road 3320, around 4 p.m. Friday.
Once there, they made contact with a man who did not speak English well, but was able to communicate to deputies through a translation app that someone had been killed.
Deputies found the bodies of two men in a residence on the property. Mullett said they appeared to have been shot. It is unclear how long the victims had been dead.
“At that point we stepped out of the residence, secured it and requested several agencies to assist us,” Mullett said.
The bodies of the victims were released Friday evening to the Medical Examiner’s Office, which will make positive identifications and determine the cause of death. Mullett said one of the victims was Hispanic and the other Asian.
Mullett said the man who called police is believed to be a part-time employee at the grow.
“His story is when he got there, he started working in the grow area waiting on the other two gentlemen to come to work. When he didn’t see them, he went to the residence, found them and that’s when he called us,” Mullett said.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Sheriff’s Office with the case.
Mullett said he has also requested help from the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office.
“We’ve asked the Attorney General’s Office [to assist] because we are working with them continuously on some other robberies that have taken place with gang members out of Oklahoma City and Texas and that has tied into several of the grows there in Garvin County and throughout the state,” Mullett said.
As of now, Mullett said investigators don’t have any evidence to support robbery as a motive for the homicides, but they are not ruling that out.
“We know that some of these guys that are robbing these grows are armed and they are dangerous,” Mullett said. “So, we’re not ruling that out as of right now. I just don’t have the evidence to support that.”
Mullett said he has also requested Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics take a look at the grow facility to determine ownership, whether the facility is properly licensed through OMMA, and what plants and processed product are supposed to be at the facility.
Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to contact the OSBI tipline at 1-800-522-8017 or email tips@osbi.ok.gov.
