In the early morning hours of January 7, 2024, 53-year-old Harry Dam was found dead at a legal marijuana grow site near Castle in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma. Deputies located Dam at a property near State Highway 48 and East 1020 Road and determined he had suffered an apparent gunshot wound. Evidence at the scene pointed to a violent home invasion and robbery; other people on the property had been physically assaulted.

Investigators connected the Okfuskee County attack to a months-long series of violent armed robberies targeting Asian-owned and operated marijuana farms in nearby Stephens County. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation led a multi-agency probe involving the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and Texas law enforcement. Arrests in Texas on March 7, 2024, and additional arrests in Oklahoma City on April 24, 2024, resulted in multiple people being charged in relation to the Stephens County robberies and in the first-degree murder, conspiracy and robbery with a dangerous weapon charges tied to Dam’s death. Authorities said the arrests interrupted a multi-state criminal operation.

Are there details about the grow site, the timeline that night, or anyone present that could help explain how this operation targeted these farms?