Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond
OKLAHOMA CITY (Sept. 8, 2025) — In the wake of OMES Director Rick Rose’s resignation announcement, Attorney General Gentner Drummond is revealing allegations of improper conduct by Rose which Drummond reported in a letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt. The letter was delivered to Gov. Stitt’s official email address on Sept. 4.
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 are used by Drummond’s law enforcement agents as they crack down on illegal marijuana grows and retail theft operations.
Drummond wrote to Stitt alleging that “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 noted this refusal was “presumably at [Stitt’s] instruction.”
“If it is true that you or your staff instructed Director Rose to block the purchase of these vehicles, such an act would represent a serious misuse of your authority, causing direct harm to the ability of my law enforcement agents to do their job,” wrote Drummond. “If you did not direct or authorize this action, then you should remove Director Rose for abusing his position in a way that impedes ongoing law enforcement activities.”
Drummond said he believes Rose’s recent departure is related to the information provided to the Governor in last week’s letter.
“I believe the information I shared with the Governor about Director Rose’s interference with my law enforcement agents played a role in the Director’s departure,” Drummond said. “Policy disagreements are one thing, but playing politics with official law enforcement efforts should never be tolerated.”
Read Drummond’s full letter to Governor Stitt here.
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