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First Maine weed, now the Labubu(s) – the Chinese Community Party (CCP) has moved on…
Farmington attorney Paul Mills, the brother of Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), first popped into…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Susan Collins (R) says she secured new funding and legislative language…
Two Chinese men living in New York pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud charges on Wednesday…
A Chinese woman living in New York pleaded guilty on Monday to operating illegal marijuana…
A citizen’s initiative aimed at ending the sale and production of recreational cannabis in Maine…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson received the Dao Prize for investigative journalism on Wednesday from…
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed Florida to begin enforcing a state law that…
Two New York men have agreed to plead guilty in a federal case alleging they…
The U.S. Treasury Department is sounding the alarm on sprawling Chinese money laundering networks that…
Farmington attorney Paul Mills, the brother of Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), first popped into…
A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of a…
Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either…
If you’re looking to grow thousands of pounds of black market marijuana out of rural…
Two Chinese men living in New York pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud charges on Wednesday…
The 87-year-old self-described “frontman” for an elaborate Chinese-run drug trafficking organization active in rural Maine…
Update: Several hours after the Maine Wire broke this story, the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department posted…
Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware…
Following the execution of a search warrant at 199 Middle Road in Fairfield related to…
A Maine family developed unusual respiratory symptoms after touring a Monmouth home that had previously…
Solon property once the site of an illegal grow targeted for receivorship
Town officials in northern Penobscot County suspect that out-of-state criminal organizations are illegally growing and…
From Oklahoma to Maine, a little known program operated by the U.S. Department of Treasury…
State and federal law enforcement agencies have known about the existence of a sprawling network…
Law enforcement raided an illegal, industrial-scale marijuana grow operation Tuesday morning in Wilton, ME at…
Maine Wire Reporter Seamus Othot contributed to this story. The small family home at 254…
Campobello Holdings, Inc. arrived in Downeast Maine with promises to convert an antique sardine cannery…
Hundreds of illegal Marijuana grow sites operated by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations have cropped up…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying its efforts against Chinese organized crime networks operating in…
Multiple Maine law enforcement agencies responded on Tuesday to a property at 199 Middle Road…
A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his…
In August of 2023, immigration reporter Jennie Taer published a leaked Department of Homeland Security…
Asian transnational criminal organizations operate more than 270 illegal marijuana cultivation sites in Maine, according…
The infamous cannabis grow at 128 Weld Road in Wilton, just behind the former Bass…
A group of men charged with running an illegal marijuana farm in rural Maine have…
Three unidentified Chinese nationals were intercepted attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Canada into…
The Maine State Police executed a search warrant at a property in Parsonfield Friday morning…
A citizen’s initiative aimed at ending the sale and production of recreational cannabis in Maine…
Seven Chinese nationals are facing federal charges for allegedly running a multi-million-dollar illegal pot empire…
Excerpt from congressional report detailing Hunter Biden’s relationship with Chinese-communist linked corporations and agents. Photo…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) on Thursday issued her strongest call yet for President Donald…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two more individuals in relation to a series…
A Chinese woman living in New York pleaded guilty on Monday to operating illegal marijuana…
A week after the national release of the documentary, High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover…
Note: This story was updated after publication to include comments from a law firm representing…
More than 80 cannabis industry stakeholders gathered Friday in Augusta to address the myriad challenges…