Chinese Drug Cartels Control 300+ Properties Across Maine

Independent journalist Steve Robinson exposes how Chinese organized crime has infiltrated rural Maine through illegal marijuana operations while government officials remain silent.

Key Takeaways

• Over 300 properties across Maine are controlled by Chinese transnational criminal organizations operating illegal marijuana grows
• Governor Janet Mills and state law enforcement have taken virtually no action despite years of documented evidence
• Chinese cartels exploit legal marijuana laws as camouflage while using banned pesticides that contaminate entire properties
• The governor's brother Paul Mills has processed real estate transfers for Chinese nationals connected to these criminal operations
• Local media outlets funded by George Soros refuse to investigate or report on the criminal conspiracy
• Maine's "live and let live" culture is being systematically exploited by foreign criminal organizations
• Environmental contamination from illegal chemicals makes many properties uninhabitable and potentially dangerous for decades
• Two-thirds of illegally grown marijuana leaves Maine for black markets in other states
• Chinese operatives in military-style fatigues guard some facilities with motion sensors and coordinated security

The Scale of Chinese Criminal Infiltration

• Department of Homeland Security documents identified over 270 illegal marijuana sites in Maine alone, with another 800 across the country under control of "Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations"
• Robinson's investigation uncovered well over 300 Chinese-controlled properties by analyzing mortgage records, electrical upgrades, and financial documents across every Maine county
• These operations span former schools, nursing homes, shoe factories, and scrap metal yards throughout rural communities where real estate prices collapsed after industrial decline
• Chinese buyers consistently follow the same pattern: a young English-speaking couple purchases property, introduces themselves to neighbors with gifts, then disappears forever
• Subsequent occupants are typically non-English speaking individuals who rarely leave the property except for regular U-Haul pickups every 30-40 days at 3-4 AM
• Properties feature identical characteristics: blacked-out windows, commercial-grade electrical upgrades, overwhelming cannabis odor, and frequent electrical failures causing neighborhood blackouts
• Many facilities burn down from overloaded electrical systems attempting to power intensive growing operations in buildings never designed for such loads

Government Corruption and Willful Blindness

• Governor Janet Mills has never publicly acknowledged the criminal conspiracy despite overwhelming evidence presented directly to her office and staff
• Mills's brother Paul Mills, a Farmington attorney, processed real estate transfers for Chinese nationals connected to illegal marijuana operations, including a suspicious "gift to mother" transaction days after law enforcement raids
• When contacted by Robinson, Paul Mills claimed he "couldn't remember" who asked him to handle the transfer but recalled detailed property information
• State Police Colonel Michael Sashchuk, Mills's cabinet appointee, has refused all attempts at communication about the criminal operations despite troopers' frustration with leadership decisions
• Office of Cannabis Policy Director John Hudak admitted in legislative testimony that he knowingly issues licenses to individuals suspected of ties to Chinese organized crime because his "hands are tied"
• Maine State Police have been involved in only three raids, two occurring just miles from their headquarters, apparently only after becoming concerned about potential cover-up appearances
• When Robinson visited state police headquarters with evidence of "a vast criminal conspiracy," he was told "there's nobody here who can talk to you" and promised a callback that never came

Environmental Devastation and Public Health Threats

• Every property used for illegal marijuana cultivation requires demolition due to contamination from banned Chinese pesticides, fungicides, and persistent black mold from high-humidity growing conditions
• California investigations using Army National Guard weapons of mass destruction units identified illegal Chinese-manufactured chemicals that no Maine laboratory can test for
• These substances include pesticides banned even in China, applied in untested combinations and burned as fumigants that coat entire building interiors
• Chinese operators import chemicals illegally from California facilities, with shipping records traced to a Massachusetts supply store and a Monmouth, Maine property 1,000 feet from an elementary school
• Extraction processes that concentrate THC also concentrate oil-soluble pesticides, creating highly toxic vape products distributed across multiple states
• A grandmother and her grandchildren developed immediate respiratory symptoms after touring a contaminated house that had just been listed for sale with no environmental disclosure
• Properties feature systematic illegal dumping of styrofoam growing substrates, chemical waste, and other hazardous materials that permanently contaminate soil and groundwater
• Carbon monoxide poisoning at a Freedom, Maine facility killed two Chinese workers in what Robinson believes was intentional triad-on-triad violence disguised as an accident

Exploitation of Legal Loopholes and Financial Systems

• Chinese criminal organizations exploit Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) programs designed to help marginalized communities access mortgages
• Approximately one-third of illegal marijuana properties were purchased using CDFI mortgages through Quantic Bank, which advertises mortgage services to foreign nationals on its website
• Two loan officers at Quantic Bank, both Chinese nationals, originated 95% of these suspicious mortgages, with one graduating from a Chinese university affiliated with the PRC's economic warfare program
• Small Business Administration loans were available to foreign nationals until recently, providing additional taxpayer-funded assistance to criminal operations
• Legal marijuana businesses serve as perfect camouflage, while regulatory complexity creates barriers that legitimate operators struggle to navigate
• When raided, operations immediately restart by claiming they're "in the process of getting a license," which prevents law enforcement from taking further action
• Property ownership structures use complex trust arrangements to obscure actual control and provide plausible deniability for criminal activity
• Real estate transactions often involve significant off-the-books cash payments to avoid tax obligations and hide money flows

Media Suppression and Information Control

• George Soros funds Maine's largest newspaper company through the National Trust for Local News, alongside Swiss national Hansorg Wyss who has been sanctioned for illegal political donations
• Despite Robinson providing a comprehensive database of 150+ confirmed sites to the Bangor Daily News, they have never reported on the criminal conspiracy
• Maine's three major newspapers only publish law enforcement press releases about individual raids while deliberately ignoring documented patterns of organized crime
• No Maine media outlet covered Robinson's explosive revelation about Governor Mills's brother profiting from Chinese criminal real estate transactions
• National media including CBS and NBC have covered the story, with NBC allegedly plagiarizing Robinson's journalism, but local outlets maintain complete silence
• Robinson estimates there are only about six actual journalists remaining in Maine, a state of 1.3 million people larger than the other five New England states combined
• The deliberate media blackout serves Democratic political interests by avoiding scrutiny of the Mills administration's failures and potential corruption

Community Impact and Cultural Destruction

• Robinson's hometown of Dexter collapsed after Warren Buffett acquired and closed the local shoe factory, eliminating over 1,000 union jobs and devastating the local economy
• Foreign-owned convenience stores now dominate small town centers, selling drug paraphernalia, illegal Chinese vapes, and unregulated hemp-derived narcotics to minors while providing hostile service
• Seven illegal Chinese marijuana grows operated in Dexter despite the town opting out of the state's legal marijuana program, with local police aware but taking no action
• Maine's traditionally polite "live and let live" culture is systematically exploited by criminal organizations who understand locals' reluctance to complain about foreign neighbors
• Residents tolerate behavior from Chinese operators they would never accept from white neighbors, including illegal dumping, infrastructure damage, and obvious criminal activity
• The state's demographic targeting was explicit, with Maine selected because it was "too white" and suitable for "political experimentation" by progressive organizations
• Young Maine natives increasingly cannot afford to remain in the state, with one of Robinson's producers saying they "just haven't been able to save up enough money to get out"