A Chinese woman from New York pleaded guilty on Monday to drug possession charges related to her operation of two illegal marijuana grow houses, the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department announced on Friday.
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Ying Chen pleaded guilty to possession of scheduled drugs and admitted to criminal forfeiture of $4,232.
She was sentenced to four years in prison, but all but 10 months were suspended, to be followed by three years of probation. She was also ordered to pay a measly $400 fine.
Her associate, Dun Eng, also living in New York, pleaded guilty to cultivating marijuana and criminal forfeiture of the same $4,232 in cash. He received a fully suspended five-year sentence followed by three years of probation and was issued a more substantial $10,000 fine.
Both Eng and Chen were charged in connection with the operation of two illegal marijuana grow houses.
On April 23, 2024, Piscataquis deputies executed a search warrant at 1052 Douty Hill Road in Sangerville, where they seized 1872 marijuana plants and 26 pounds of processed marijuana.
Evidence at that house led deputies to execute a search at 1765 Dexter Road in Dover-Foxcroft, where they located 1,300 plants.
Eng and Chen were among the four suspects arrested in 2024 in connection with illegal marijuana grows in Piscataquis County.
These courts obviously don’t understand the economics of the drug trade, if they thought these amounts are a deterrent
Watch out for the kung fu.
“woman” Just one? Come on guys, get with the program.
Everybody knows that Janet is allowing these chi-com grow houses to do business. Her brother helps.
Maine needs more ICE…what happened in 2024 and why still here? Oh, yeh…Mills’ “protected group”…
Excellent. Now only several hundred more to go.
Except that Governor Karen wants them here for some unfathomable reason.
Maine is not a large state but when you are planning to run to become US Senator from the State of Maine, you gotta know you gotta get your hands, however dirty, on all the cash, however dirty, that you can get. Now that the Governess will not be running for the Senate, the hundreds of Chinese here might want to arrange for flights home, NOW.
Slaps on the wrist. Nothing but an irritant, the cost of doing business for these miscreants. Back in business in 12 months no doubt.
To who are these China grows selling their weed? Legal retailers? Is there still a street market for the devil’s lettuce?