🇺🇸 Maine, United States
RSS6 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 10
- Plants destroyed
- 10.3K
- Cannabis seized
- 100.24 kg
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- At risk
- Secure
- Held in a genebank
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- No seed lot recorded
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- Raid · 2
- Prosecution · 1
- Sentence · 3
Reports
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20262 reports
Maine grow-house case ends in one day served and three years of supervision
Ken Yiu, 49, received a one-day, time-served prison sentence and three years of supervised release in Bangor on 30 September 2026. He had admitted mortgage fraud and maintaining a Saint Albans house to grow and distribute marijuana.
Charged 1Prison 1 day (time served)
Brooklyn man sentenced for 40-pound Passadumkeag grow

A federal judge sentenced 68-year-old Brooklyn man Xisen Guo to time served and a year of supervised release for running an illegal marijuana grow in Passadumkeag, Maine. A 2024 search of the home found about 40 pounds of processed marijuana and cash after Guo took over the multi-year operation.
Cannabis 18.14 kgPrison time served and one year of supervised releaseCash confiscated USD 4,700
20242 reports
Eight charged in Lincoln County marijuana grows; one dismissed
Maine prosecutors dismissed a marijuana-cultivation charge against Hongxia Kuang on 5 September 2024 for insufficient evidence. Seven other Chinese nationals remained charged after Whitefield and Chelsea raids seized more than 2,100 plants and about 70 pounds of processed marijuana.
Arrested 3Charged 8Plants destroyed 2,100Cannabis 31.75 kg
4,760 cannabis plants seized from Skowhegan grow; three from Brooklyn arrested

Somerset County sheriff's deputies searching a home on Waterville Road in Skowhegan found 4,760 cannabis plants in March 2024 and arrested three Brooklyn residents, who were charged with drug trafficking and marijuana cultivation. The home held cash, a pickup truck and signs of black mould and electrical faults, and one defendant's trial later collapsed after he returned to China.
Arrested 3Charged 3Plants destroyed 4,760Cash confiscated USD 7,000
20231 report
Sheriff seizes 3,400 plants and 111 pounds of marijuana in Carmel raid

The Penobscot County Sheriff's Office raided an unlicensed grow in a former chicken barn at 1123 Main Road in Carmel on 29 June 2023, seizing more than 3,400 plants and 111 pounds of processed marijuana and arresting four men from New York and Massachusetts.
Arrested 4Plants destroyed 3,400Cannabis 50.35 kg
20211 report
Life term of paraplegic cannabis smuggler Pelletier commuted
Michael Pelletier, 64, a paraplegic serving life for running a 2003-2006 marijuana smuggling ring from Canada into Maine, was among 70 people granted clemency on 20 January 2021. Sentenced in Bangor in 2008, he had sought compassionate release over failing health and a COVID-19 infection.
Prison life plus concurrent 20 years (commuted January 2021)
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