On May 13, 2024, Deputies with the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office conducted two traffic stops on Interstate 40 in Canadian County that resulted in seizing forty pounds of Marijuana and nineteen pounds of Fentanyl. Interstate 40 is a corridor for drug trafficking and law enforcement including the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office conducts operations to combat drug trafficking.
These interdictions led to the arrest of Xue Pan, a 46-year-old male from China, and Levi Mitchell, a 27-year-old male from Indiana. In the morning of May 13, 2024, deputies stopped a vehicle traveling from Watonga to Oklahoma City transporting forty packages of marijuana bundles weighing one pound each. The suspect, Pan, did not have any form of marijuana license and was subsequently arrested for trafficking marijuana. The street value of this marijuana load was one hundred sixty thousand dollars. Also, on May 13, 2024, deputies stopped a vehicle for speeding on Interstate 40. During the stop, the deputies along with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics deployed a drug detection K9 which alerted to the presence of narcotics in the vehicle. The result of the investigation located nineteen pounds of fentanyl.
The suspect, Mitchell, was arrested for aggravated trafficking of fentanyl. The street value of fentanyl seized is four hundred thirty-two thousand dollars. Canadian County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to interdicting illegal narcotics through Canadian County. Deputies transported Mitchell and Pan to the Canadian County Detention Center. Mitchell is in custody with a fifty-thousand-dollar bond. Xue has bonded out of jail. “I’m extremely proud of he hard work and dedication my deputies put into these cases. Citizens are safer because of the work,†said Chris West, Canadian County Sheriff.
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Chris West Sheriff
Canadian County, OK
