Lincoln County deputies arrested one suspect and are searching for a second one after a burglary at a marijuana grow on Sunday sparked a massive manhunt by local, county and state agencies.
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Bennett said a Golden CMC Canyon pickup truck was reported stolen from a residence overnight Sunday in that area “by whom we believe is a suspect in the grow burglary.”
He said the call came into dispatch about the stolen pickup around 8:30 a.m. Monday morning.
Bennett confirmed that one of the two suspects was arrested and is in custody “on non-related charges.” A source said that suspect had at least one outstanding warrant.
Bennett didn’t identify the suspect who they jailed. “He was taken into custody around 6 or 7 p.m. Sunday after multiple people called into our Dispatch about a subject walking down a rural road at the time we were conducting the manhunt. Our deputies took him into custody,” the sergeant said.
“We are actively still searching for the second suspect,” Bennett stated.
He said the vehicle the suspects used in the burglary was seized.
The burglary of the marijuana grow reportedly occurred around noon on Sunday. “We don’t know much of the product from the grow was stolen, but we recovered stolen product in the suspects’ vehicle,” Bennett noted.
He said no one was at the grow facility when it was broken into, but explained a worker of the grow who has access to surveillance video saw two suspects breach the front door with their weapons and notified the Sheriff’s Dispatch.
“We were able to ID they had firearms and both were armed,” Bennett stated.
Among the agencies assisting the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office in the manhunt Bennett said were the Chandler Police Department, the Stroud Police Department and K-9, the Luther Police Department and K-9, Wellston Police were on the scene, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, several game wardens with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs provided drones for air support as did Stroud Fire Department and Potawatomie County Emergency Management who also had drones in the air as well.