By Matt Dinger, Staff Writer
A year of infiltration by a Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agent and a month of wiretapping were enough to unravel a nine-person organization attempting to traffic marijuana into Oklahoma from Colorado, court records show.
A wiretap, which requires a specialized form of search warrant, allows for the recording of a conversation without any of the parties’ consent at the same time it is occurring.
Terry Hardin Wilkerson, 71, William Jesse Hoge, 53, and Crystal Adams, 45, all of Oklahoma City, were charged in April with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 100 or more kilograms of pot.
Also charged in the two federal complaints were Curtis Frank Wagner, 49, David Geubelle, 45, Marty Shellabarger, 67, Skylar J. Freeman, 25, Shawn N. Maminakis, 34, and David Lincoln Steele, 48.
Wilkerson endeavored to bring the marijuana into the state through Hoge, who was going to join an American Indian tribe and church in Colorado that was growing the marijuana, according to the complaint.
The undercover agent, who is not identified in the complaint, met Wilkerson through a confidential informant in April 2013.
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