Prelim hearings set for 2 in grow house case

Preliminary hearings have been scheduled for two men indicted by the OklahomaMulti-County Grand Jury accusing them of conspiracy, robbery, burglary and assault involving a Lincoln Countygrowhousefacility last July.

Formal charges were filed in Lincoln County District Court on Feb. 28, 2025 against Tauriawn Latrelle Knight, 25, of Edmond and Marquethz Latrale Lee, 27, of Midwest City. Court records show that$500,000benchwarrants have been issued for the arrest of each.The records also show that an initial appearance was set for March 27, 2025. Lee also made his initial appearance on that date.

Special Judge Emily Mueller had scheduled their pre-preliminary hearings for 1:30 p.m. on May 8, 2025. On that date she scheduled their preliminary hearings for 9 a.m. Aug. 15, 2025.

Knight faces five felonies including conspiracy to commit first degree robbery, first degree robbery, first degree burglary, second degree burglary and assault while masked or in disguise.

Lee is charged with nine felonies, including conspiracy to commit first degree robbery, first degree robbery, two counts of first degree burglary, two counts of second degree burglary, assault while masked or in disguise, attempted robberywithadangerous weapon and engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses.

According to the information brought by the grand jury, Knight, Lee and others traveled from Oklahoma County to Redbud Relief Farms LLC, 346162 E. 890 Road, Chandler, during the early morning hours of July 26, 2024 for the purpose of perpetrating a robbery against the occupants at that location.

They brought firearms for the purpose of effecting the robbery by force or fear and wore masks to conceal their identities.

The information states once they arrived, they unlawfully gained entry to the dwelling house at the Redbud Relief Farms property and to its marijuana grow buildings, assaulting the occupants and demanding their money.

While at the property, they assaulted around 10 people who were residing and/or working there.

They took and carried away from those people items of personal property belonging to them, including marijuana and/ or U.S. currency, and/ or credit cards and/or identification cards, a Ford F-150 pickup truck and in the course of the robbery threatened those individuals with bodily injury.

Knight, Lee and others eventually fled from the farm in an effort to avoid apprehension.

The first five counts against Knight and Lee mirror one another. But Lee faces additional counts in the indictment the grand jury returned against him.

In the attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, Lee is accused on Aug. 14, 2024 of attempting to rob two men through the use of a dangerous weapon, a pistol with the crime occurring at ZMAT, LLC, 11774 NS 3570 Road in Seminole.

An additional first degree burglary count accuses Lee on Aug. 14, 2024 in Seminole County of breaking into the ZMAT, LLC occupied by those same two individuals in the above charge with the intent to rob them.

Count 8 against Lee, second degree burglary, accuses him on Aug. 14, 2024 of breaking and entering commercial buildings and/or commercial structures located at ZMAT,LLC,andlarceny of marijuana.

Count 9 charges Lee with engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses.

The information accuses him of between July 26, 2024 and Aug. 14, 2024, of perpetrating two or more criminal offenses including the burglary and robbery offenses which occurred at the Redbud Relief Farms, LLC in Chandler and the burglary and robbery offenses at the ZMAT LLCC in Seminole, each as part of the same plan, scheme or adventure and being a sequence of criminal offenses not separated by an interval of more than 30 days.