A web of shell companies and illegal grows allegedly linked to Chinese organized crime traces its start to one former ...

"Chinese organized criminal networks that ... "If you have a place like Maine where marijuana is legal, there is less scrutiny on marijuana" he said. "It's a recipe for disaster in the sense ...

Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either incapable — or unwilling — to do anything about it. The Maine Wire has identified more than 100 ...

Now, the Maine Wire reports that illegal Chinese marijuana grows have been metastasizing throughout rural Maine over the last three years. A leaked Department of Homeland Security memo indicates ...

A group of men charged with running an illegal marijuana farm in rural Maine have extensive ties to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organ responsible for intelligence gathering and foreign ...

Learn more. Maine’s congressional delegation is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down illegal Chinese-run marijuana growing operations in the state, citing a report last week that ...

PORTLAND (WGME) – Federal authorities say illegal growing of marijuana is happening all over rural parts of the country, including in Maine ... are tied to Chinese organized crime.

A Chinese national living in Maine who was accused of illegally growing marijuana has revealed that she 'liked the smell and the plants were her babies'. Jiamin Liao, 29, was taken into custody on ...

Chinese marijuana producers have more recently set up in Maine. Since January, more than 40 illegal grow operations with ties to Chinese organized crime have been shut down across the state.

It came as law enforcement officials target marijuana grow operations in which rural homes in Maine are purchased ... to criminal syndicates including Chinese-organized crime.