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PublishedOctober 31, 2024
‘Gray market weed’: Illegal grow house operators and their tainted product take refuge in Maine’s legal market
With a little paperwork and scant oversight, investigators say illegal grow houses tied to Chinese organized crime are increasingly shifting to the medical market, avoiding oversight in the process.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2024
State urges precaution as mosquito-borne encephalitis found in horse in Somerset County
The case was the latest positive test in what has been an active season for mosquito-borne illness, officials said.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2024
Map: Where police raided residential cannabis grow operations in Maine
Approximate locations of many of the cannabis grow operations in residential locations.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2024
‘Layers of invisibility’: Workers at Maine’s illegal cannabis grow sites show signs of human trafficking
Federal prosecutors say they have found no evidence of exploitation at the clandestine marijuana grow houses. Some local law enforcement, anti-trafficking advocates and several grow house workers say otherwise.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2024
New Balance to close Norridgewock factory, move operations into expanded Skowhegan facility
The transition to the consolidated manufacturing facility, to be called 'Central Maine,' will begin this fall. All jobs at the Norridgewock site will be transferred to Skowhegan, the company said Tuesday.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2024
Skowhegan man who ran over woman with vehicle in Bingham sentenced under plea deal
Ryan Paul Mann, 43, was sentenced in connection with three charges stemming from the November incident, which left a woman with serious injuries.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2024
Kennebec County Courthouse damaged in powerful storm
Tuesday's storm downed trees and power lines and severely damaged the roof on the historic Kennebec County Courthouse as remnants of Hurricane Beryl move through New England.
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PublishedJune 7, 2024
Illegal marijuana grows tied to China are funding fentanyl that’s ‘killing our citizens,’ Somerset County sheriff says
Sheriff Dale Lancaster told the county’s Board of Commissioners that his office has made investigating illegal marijuana growing operations a priority because 'those profits are used to buy the chemicals to send to the cartel to make fentanyl.'
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PublishedMay 19, 2024
Court documents provide deeper look inside Maine’s clandestine cannabis grows
Laborers living out of suitcases, $10,000 electricity bills and elaborate automatic growing systems are among what officials found inside several of the residences, according to recently filed federal documents.
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PublishedMay 3, 2024
Feds: Maine illegal marijuana grows may be tied to Chinese crime organizations
The U.S. Attorney’s office said Friday that federal authorities are investigating an estimated 100 illegal growing sites in Maine, as well as similar activities in 19 other states.
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