A longtime Bel Aire resident has presented a petition calling for the police chief's dismissal, and the mayor has launched an investigation of what went wrong when police raided a couple's home searching for marijuana and instead found sunflowers growing in the back yard.

Mayor Brian Withrow announced during Tuesday's Bel Aire City Council meeting that he received phone calls and e-mails following 10 police officers' search of Harold and Carolyn Smith's Bel Aire home. Police obtained a search warrant Sept. 6 after an officer saw tall plants in the Smiths' back yard and suspected they were growing marijuana. Instead, authorities found Maximilian sunflower plants.

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