Update: Several hours after the Maine Wire broke this story, the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department posted new information on their Facebook page. Three Chinese males were arrested at the site. Law enforcement also seized 40 pounds of marijuana, methamphetamine, and $4,700 cash. The full Facebook post is appended at the bottom of this article.
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department conducted yet another enforcement action against an illicit Chinese-controlled marijuana trafficking hub operating out of remote northern Maine on Thursday morning.
According to multiple sources in Passadumkeag, a town of less than 400 people, Sheriff’s Deputies executed a search warrant on a large property at 549 Main Road.
According to the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department, three Chinese men were detained at the property; however, only one man, Xisen Guo, 67, of New York, was arrested.
Guo was charged with Unlawful Trafficking in Scheduled drugs Class B, a felony, while the other two unidentified males were released.
The Penobscot Sheriff Troy Morton did not release any information about the immigration status of the detained individuals. Morton also did not offer any information as to why the other two individuals were released.
That property — which had been visited by the Maine Wire several times last year and confirmed as an active marijuana growing operation — is one of dozens in northern Penobscot County that are suspected of operating as black market pot dens.
