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Felony charges against a woman charged in what was described as the largest marijuana seizure in Pittsburg County were dismissed after it was determined the case was not a criminal matter.
Court records show Rachel Petersen was charged in June with felony counts of trafficking in illegal drugs-marijuana and possession of a controlled dangerous substance without a tax stamp affixed.
Petersen was charged in connection with a May 8 inspection of a marijuana processing facility in McAlester conducted by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority with assistance from the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Department and Oklahoma Game Wardens.
The report states a total of 3,077 pounds of usable marijuana was seized during the search of the processing plant along with $114,000 in cash, an affidavit filed in the case states.
Records show the felony charges were dismissed against Petersen in September by the District 18 District Attorney’s Office.
“After consultations with agencies whose target mission include drug investigations and enforcement of the Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, as well as additional review of the relevant statues, the State has concluded that administrative review and action was the more appropriate course of action to take in dealing with any possible violations of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Act or other Oklahoma criminal statues,” First Assistant District Attorney Adam Scharn wrote in the motion to dismiss.
In a probable cause affidavit, OMMA agents began the inspection of the facility and located bags of usable marijuana “that did not have METRC tags on the bags which identifies the origin of the marijuana and also keeps track of the inventory of the marijuana.”
According to OMMA, METRC is a compliance system that provides regulators with real-time visibility into the cannabis supply chain and is the most common regulatory traceability system in the legal cannabis industry. The platform is built to help state regulatory offices manage legal cannabis traceability information and reporting throughout the supply chain.
Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris in June before the charges were filed called the marijuana seizure one of the largest “in the history of Pittsburg County.”
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