The fallout from a quadruple homicide at a marijuana grow farm near Lacy in 2022 saw two more people plead guilty Wednesday to felonies.

Sentenced during their appearances before District Judge Paul Woodward at Kingfisher County District Court were Kevin Paul Pham and Richard Gregorio Ignacio.

The two were among three people originally indicted in December 2023 by a multi-county grand jury for their alleged roles in a scheme that allowed non-Oklahomans to illegally obtain commercial licenses for medical marijuana in the state.

Pham, who was 47 when the indictment was handed down, was originally charged with 13 felony counts.

As part of his plea agreement, three were dismissed and two were amended.

He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the state, four counts of filing a false/forged instrument, manufacturing a controlled dangerous substance (which was amended from the original charge of aggravated manufacturing of CDS), one count of possession of CDS with intent to distribute-meth (amended from trafficking of a CDS), one count of possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, one count of financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful acts and one count of pattern of criminal offenses.

The stiffest sentence - 20 years with the department of corrections with all but the first 10 years suspended and a $5,000 fine - was for the manufacturing of a CDS.

He received 10 years for the financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful acts and seven years for possession with intent to distribute.

All other charges brought five or fewer years.

Court documents show sentences are to run concurrent and that Pham receive credit for time served.

Ignacio, 36 when he was indicted, had a majority of his charges dismissed.

He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the state and received two years deferred plus a $4,000 fine, and one count of filing a false/forged instrument, for which he also received a two-year deferred sentence.

Indicted the same day was Alex Shiang Lin Chang, who was 48 years old at the time.

He pleaded guilty to charges in April and received a seven-year deferred sentence for conspiracy against the state and a twoyear deferred sentence for pattern of criminal offenses.

Ignacio was alleged to have been the “straw owner” of marijuana grow operations in Kingfisher County and other locations.

That included the Liu & Chen farm near Lacy at which four Chinese nationals were murdered and another shot and injured in November 2022.

Wu Chen, 46, was later arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and another count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Chen pleaded guilty to those murders in February 2024 and is serving life without parole.

Arrested in November 2022 after narcotics agents searched his Oklahoma City business, Pham was linked to at least 63 marijuana facilities, according to an affidavit.

Grand jurors accused him of using straw owners and submitting fraudulent documents to obtain the licenses for the facilities.

State law states at least 75 percent of a grow operation be owned by Oklahoma residents.

Ignacio, from Bethany, was listed to have 75 percent ownership in the Lacy farm.

Prior to pleading guilty in 2022 to a felony charge of conspiracy against the state, Ignacio told authorities Pham arranged for him to be listed as the resident owner of multiple licenses because the actual owners weren’t eligible, he said.

After the indictments, Natalie Mai, presiding judge of the multi-county grand jury, assigned the cases to Kingfisher County District Court.

Grand jurors were advised by assistants from Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s office.

Joshua Fanelli, an assistant attorney general, represented Drummond’s office at Wednesday’s proceedings.