Oklahoma narcotics agents raided a Chinese seafood restaurant in Oklahoma City as part of an organized-crime investigation, seizing “trafficking amounts” of methamphetamine, ketamine, and ecstasy, as well as a firearm, according to the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN).
OBN said its Marijuana Enforcement Teams and Human Trafficking Unit served a search warrant at Lucky Zhang Seafood Restaurant in Oklahoma City around 12:30 a.m. on May 29.
The agency said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took 16 people into custody during the operation. OBN did not publicly identify them or state whether any had been criminally charged.
“This investigation includes black-market marijuana trafficking from grow operations around the state linked to people associated with the Lucky Zhang restaurant,” OBN spokesman Mark Woodward said in the agency’s statement….