{"id":150622,"date":"2026-03-03T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:27:08","slug":"alleged-leader-of-large-scale-criminal-organization-transferred-from-nyc-to-oklahoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150622\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged leader of large-scale criminal organization transferred from NYC to Oklahoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) &#8211; The alleged leader of a large-scale criminal organization was moved from New York City to Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hao Chen faces 18 charges, all connected to what investigators say was his part in a major marijuana operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chen is accused of running a scheme to fraudulently get Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority licenses and OBN registrations for grow facilities across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Oklahomans were reportedly brought in as \u201cstraw owners\u201d to apply for the fake applications, then illegally manufactured marijuana and got the drug to the black market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In total, authorities say Chen\u2019s organization is responsible for around 1 million pounds of marijuana with a more than $1 billion street value.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Hao Chen\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5TDYJ3DX4FEPBLCOPHTO6CIPQM.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Hao Chen(KSWO)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KSWO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) &#8211; The alleged leader of a large-scale criminal organization was moved from New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49238,63012,49237,9,12,56,63,65,64,63011,3028],"class_list":["post-150622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-7news","tag-hao-chen","tag-kswo","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-obn","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}