When Sarah Cross, owner of Across the Prairie, left her shop one Saturday evening, her pollinator garden was thriving — full of native wildflowers and monarch caterpillars in their final stage before becoming butterflies.

By the next morning, the plants were brown and brittle.

Security cameras showed why.

Before the shop opened, a man pulled into the parking lot, stood in front of the Monarch Waystation sign, read it, then walked down the row of plants spraying poison.

“They just took their little can of spray and went down the pollinator row,” Cross said. “Unfortunately, they were covered in monarch caterpillars.”

The Crime and Investigation

Tulsa Police are now investigating.

“If someone else comes by and poisons [plants], that is a crime,” said TPD’s Richard Meulenberg. “That per

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