Ada - Growers who attempted to cultivate an estimated 6,000 "high-quality" marijuana plants on a patch of land north of Ada didn't just pick the wrong area for their illegal enterprise - they picked the wrong state.

"Our drug eradication program is really a model for the entire country. Agents from all over the country come to our school," Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward said Tuesday afternoon.

Approximately 35 OBN agents and another 20 Chickasaw Nation Lighthorse Police and District 22 Task Force officers - acting on an anonymous tip - had discovered the plants. Some of the marijuana plants were 6 to 8 feet tall and had a street value estimated at $9 million.

"That's evidence that the people (involved in growing the drug) weren't from around here," Woodward said. "If they had known how good we are at what we do, they probably wouldn't have come to Oklahoma to grow their marijuana."

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