Triad Weed: A Maine Wire Investigative Series
Recent Stories
Authorities seized nearly 1,500 marijuana plants, 53 pounds of processed marijuana, and other items during…
Three Chinese nationals — only one of which was present in the U.S. legally –…
As Maine continues to struggle with how to confront the sprawling networks of Chinese criminal…
A Maine family developed unusual respiratory symptoms after touring a Monmouth home that had previously…
A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his…
Thousands of American kids are being sent to camps run by a Chinese influence and…
A new report released by the Republican House Oversight Committee warns that the Chinese Communist…
Two people are dead and several others were hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at a…
Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at…
A man arrested for obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent in…
As Maine continues to struggle with how to confront the sprawling networks of Chinese criminal…
Three Chinese nationals — only one of which was present in the U.S. legally –…
A Maine family developed unusual respiratory symptoms after touring a Monmouth home that had previously…
Authorities seized nearly 1,500 marijuana plants, 53 pounds of processed marijuana, and other items during…
Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either…
A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of a…
From Oklahoma to Maine, a little known program operated by the U.S. Department of Treasury…
Maine Wire Reporter Seamus Othot contributed to this story. The small family home at 254…
Three unidentified Chinese nationals were intercepted attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Canada into…
Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at…
If you’re looking to grow thousands of pounds of black market marijuana out of rural…
A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his…
The 87-year-old self-described “frontman” for an elaborate Chinese-run drug trafficking organization active in rural Maine…
Two people are dead and several others were hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at a…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying its efforts against Chinese organized crime networks operating in…
Campobello Holdings, Inc. arrived in Downeast Maine with promises to convert an antique sardine cannery…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Division executed a drug search warrant at a residence…
Update: Several hours after the Maine Wire broke this story, the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department posted…
In August of 2023, immigration reporter Jennie Taer published a leaked Department of Homeland Security…
Hundreds of illegal Marijuana grow sites operated by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations have cropped up…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department led a raid on a property in Cornville on Wednesday…
Asian transnational criminal organizations operate more than 270 illegal marijuana cultivation sites in Maine, according…
In the town of Dexter, Maine, a seemingly abandoned property on Highland Avenue that once…
Law enforcement raided an illegal, industrial-scale marijuana grow operation Tuesday morning in Wilton, ME at…
A Chinese national arrested during law enforcement raids on illegal marijuana grows in March is…
The Maine State Police executed a search warrant at a property in Parsonfield Friday morning…
Town officials in northern Penobscot County suspect that out-of-state criminal organizations are illegally growing and…
A New York man was arrested Wednesday morning in Norridgewock following a raid on a…
The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy is investigating a property in Turner after firefighters responding…
State and federal law enforcement agencies have known about the existence of a sprawling network…
Maine authorities have intensified their crackdown on illegal marijuana operations, conducting multiple raids across central…
When the Machias Police executed a search warrant at 414 East Kennebec Road in December,…
The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office arrested three Chinese adult males and seized 970 marijuana plants…
Just two weeks after the Wilton Police Department and Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy confiscated…
A large number of Maine law enforcement officers executed a search warrant Monday morning at…
CBS News Investigations ran a segment Tuesday highlighting the proliferation of Asian transnational criminal organizations…