Fallout continues from the quadruple homicide at a marijuana grow farm last year near Lacey.

A multi-county grand jury last week indicted three men for a scheme that allegedly allowed non-Oklahomans to illegally obtain commercial licenses for medical marijuana in the state.

Indicted were Kevin Paul Pham, 47, Alex Shiang Lin Chang 48, and Richard Gregorio Ignacio, 36.

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

That includes the Liu & Chen farm near Lacey 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.

Pham is facing 13 felony counts in all, including aggravated manufacturing of marijuana, which carries a potential sentence of 20 years to life and a $50,000 fine.

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

Grand jurors are accusing 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 Lacey farm.

Prior to pleading guilty last year 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.

He has been indicted on a count of conspiracy to defraud the state as well as eight other counts.

Chang faces two counts, conspiracy and pattern of criminal offenses.

All three were arrested after their 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.

Assistant Attorney General Taylor Brown signed the indictments.

“We cannot and will not tolerate these illegal enterprises enriching themselves at the expense of rural Oklahoma,” said Drummond in a press release announcing the indictments. “While there are many law-abiding participants in the state’s medical marijuana industry, law enforcement has seen an influx of others who are using the situation to supply black-market marijuana throughout the country.

“I am proud of the multi-county grand jury, the Organized Crime Task Force and the state Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs — all of which are working diligently to rid Oklahoma of this criminal pestilence.”