Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said he reported improper conduct by OMES Director Rick Rose in a letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt last week, days before Rose’s resignation.

According to Drummond, the allegations stem from Rose’s “refusal to allow the Office of the Attorney General to complete a lawful purchase of vehicles” for Drummond’s Organized Crime Task Force and Retail Theft Task Force. The vehicles, Drummond said, are used by agents to crack down on illegal marijuana grows.

“OMES Director Rick Rose has refused to process the lawful purchase of vehicles my agents need to perform their statutorily required law enforcement activities,” Drummond wrote in the letter to Stitt.

Drummond added that the refusal was “presumably at [Stitt’s] instruction.”

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