The Holden Police Department on Thursday announced that they had raided a house in connection to an ongoing investigation into Chinese-owned illegal marijuana growing operations.
Dozens of similar properties have been searched by local law enforcement and county sheriff’s offices in recent months in connection to a sprawling network of illicit marijuana grows throughout rural Maine with suspected ties to Asian transnational organized crime.
Holden Police executed a search warrant on a home on Winters Road in Holden at about 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
The warrant was part of an on-going active investigation into an illegal Chinese marijuana growing, police said.
Although no arrests were made as a result of the search of the residence, evidence was seized.
The address of the raided property appears to be 51 Winters Rd. in Holden.
That home was bought in 2020 by a Xiao Ping Li and Huiyin Li, according to public records.
“This investigation continues to demonstrate the dangerous conditions and illegal actions occurring in these residential homes,” Holden Police wrote in a Thursday post to social media.
“A big thank you to the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Office of Cannabis Policy for their assistance with this case,” they wrote.
No further information was released by police.
Once again, the Maine State Police appear to have not been involved in the effort.
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What’s Maine now, the pot growing center of the US
No, it is Just Joe’s chines friends advoiding taxes, right Gov.
Stupid American I just wear flesh mask and put pillow under my shirt and you no think I have grow house ha ha ha
Tango down means fake news in mandarin, about as believable as chinese hypersonic missiles are made of bamboo
Even the people writin these articles are burnin meth an poppin fenties
Grow houses are distractions for meth labs and pill makers. Just something easily replicable to occupy police & mmdea ‘s time while the good stuff is labbed and compounded. Heard troy morton started the whole thing. Watch out for dale lancaster, he’s an impostor – check for makeup and fleshmask
troy morton not make my grow house idea and neither did you threesixtyfive – what that mean anyway? You stoopid every day of the year? What you do when it leap year Darius? What you son name? Darius threesixtynine? Lil’ Darry dynamite? Darius nineteen squared? You watch youself you plick. I no find you funny. Why not you go work burger king an fry up french toast sticks? Yea, DARIUS THREESIXTYFIVE IN THE HOUSE!!!! You nevermind who in faded red pickup holding meeting you cemented applejohn jack ass an quit driving stoner ridge road you not getting Chinese Rolex don’t think you can bother jade if you do lil’ wonton going to turn you into pu pu platter
I was coming out of one of my 23,822 grow houses today when po lice cruiser go by. When i put my arm up to wave at them the pillow i keep under my shirt to make everyone think i no have grow houses fall out! I pick it up suppa fast and shove it back in an wave again. They wave back and keep going. Whew! Almost caught me. It because i got new tom cruise flesh mask ha ha ha tom cruise no have grow house ha ha ha ha tom cruise don’t need to make grow house ha ha ha tom cruise would never sneak grow mariiuana in unpaid-for grow houses ha ha ha everybody trust caucasian tom cruise ha ha ha ha tom cruise good caucasian citizen ha ha ha ha tom cruise know how wave po lice like decent law biden caucasian ha ha ha ha next i buy john travolta flesh mask so giant gladiator jeep i buy with all my sneak grow mariiuana grow houses money doesn’t look spicious ha ha ha ha john travolta nother good caucasian who would never have grow house ha ha ha ha if po lice talk to me when i wear john travolta flesh mask i practice to say, ‘I GONNA DANCE ALL ACWOSS PEENOB SKIT COWNY AN THEN YOWLSEE! NONE O THEM TRIADS CAN DANCE AS GOOD AS ME!’ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha probly po lice will want auto graff from me so i practiced signing john travolta signature just like when i sign for gladiator jeep ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha john travolta no have grow house ha ha ha ha john travolta would never tatch false plates ha ha ha ha ha ha john travolta good guy ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
The high amperage sometimes observed at weed houses isn’t to grow plants, which are a smelly and obvious distraction. The amperage is for welding narcotics airtight inside metal objects so they’re undetectable by K-9.
No one from China comes here to become a cannabis grower or a narcotics dealer. If there actually were even fifty triads in the whole state they’d catch every one of you corrupt white people who finance yourselves with narcotics while pointing your fingers at others not even present.
Nobody ever got rich selling reefer; it simply isn’t worth that much.
Narcotics are a totally different story.
There isn’t enough population here for these massive amounts of them. Nearly all of this semi-sophisticated narcotics activity is for out-of-state usage. Most of those who created the goofy grow house idea are leos and feds from other states.
Maine should have a 5yr probation period for out-of-staters who attempt to move to Maine. Real Mainers should be deputized to conduct frequent welfare checks. An out-of-stater who moves here and proceeds immediately into the lifestyle of a socialite should be recognized not as someone who is friendly and generous but instead someone who is networking. Networking is the practice of learning how and who and where illegal activity, such as obtaining a garage in a remote or private way area in which narcotics may be welded airtight inside metal objects to defeat K-9, are optimal. Holding picnics, barbecues, and landowner meetings should be recognized for what they really are, especially when out-of-staters are involved. Purchase of abandoned and derelict properties should be an option open only to mainers in good standing, not felons, sex offenders, etc
While the narcotics problem in Maine is growing, it is possible to put a stop to it with technology. Just as traffic cams are highly effective in stopping vehicle offenses, narcotics scanners could be very effective in stopping narcotics abusers. Maine has a couple of very nice FEMA camps that narcotics traffickers could be removed from society and put into, as well as repeat narcotics offenders.