Note: This story was updated after publication to include comments from a law firm representing…

The Maine State Police (MSP) have arrested a suspect in the murder of William “Nate”…

A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of a…

The most aggressive sheriff in Maine notched another victory in Maine’s ongoing fight against Chinese…

Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either…

“Jason” spoke broken English. But the energetic Chinese man communicated well enough to tell an…

Update: Several hours after the Maine Wire broke this story, the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department posted…

Following the execution of a search warrant at 199 Middle Road in Fairfield related to…

Maine Wire Reporter Seamus Othot contributed to this story. The small family home at 254…

From Oklahoma to Maine, a little known program operated by the U.S. Department of Treasury…

The 87-year-old self-described “frontman” for an elaborate Chinese-run drug trafficking organization active in rural Maine…

Multiple Maine law enforcement agencies responded on Tuesday to a property at 199 Middle Road…

If you’re looking to grow thousands of pounds of black market marijuana out of rural…

As Maine continues to struggle with how to confront the sprawling networks of Chinese criminal…

The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying its efforts against Chinese organized crime networks operating in…

Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware…

A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his…

Law enforcement raided an illegal, industrial-scale marijuana grow operation Tuesday morning in Wilton, ME at…

The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department led a raid on a property in Cornville on Wednesday…

In the town of Dexter, Maine, a seemingly abandoned property on Highland Avenue that once…

Hundreds of illegal Marijuana grow sites operated by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations have cropped up…

Town officials in northern Penobscot County suspect that out-of-state criminal organizations are illegally growing and…

More than 80 cannabis industry stakeholders gathered Friday in Augusta to address the myriad challenges…

Three unidentified Chinese nationals were intercepted attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Canada into…

A federal jury in late January indicted three people for their alleged involvement in a…

In August of 2023, immigration reporter Jennie Taer published a leaked Department of Homeland Security…

The Maine State Police executed a search warrant at a property in Parsonfield Friday morning…

Three more New Yorkers have been arrested in Somerset County for illegally growing and trafficking…

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two more individuals in relation to a series…

Asian transnational criminal organizations operate more than 270 illegal marijuana cultivation sites in Maine, according…

The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department conducted a raid on a large-scale illegal marijuana operation in Dixfield on Friday, seizing over 1,600 illegally cultivated plants. The Sheriff’s Department procured a search warrant after receiving information that a house on Porter Rd. in Dixfield had been converted into an illegal marijuana grow site. The address — 142

A high-ranking official at the cabinet-level state agency admitted Wednesday that she intentionally withheld a…

Campobello Holdings, Inc. arrived in Downeast Maine with promises to convert an antique sardine cannery…

The first person to be charged federally for operating an illegal Chinese-controlled marijuana growing operation…

Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at…

Nearly 1,500 illegally grown cannabis plants were seized Thursday after the the Somerset County Sheriff’s…