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Illegal Chinese marijuana grows have taken over much of rural Maine. The government is either incapable — or unwilling — to do anything about it. The Maine Wire has identified more than 100 properties that are part of a sprawling network of Chinese-owned sites operating as unlicensed, illicit cannabis growing operations in rural Maine. According to an unclassified memo from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) obtained by the Maine Wire, the illicit grows are operated by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs). The properties cover Somerset County, Penobscot County, Kennebec County, Franklin County, Androscoggin County, and Oxford County. The...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A story that sounds like a movie script is slowly grinding its way to trial. All of the 29 defendants in the massive corruption case involving suspended State Senator Leland Yee and reputed gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow appeared in federal court Thursday. With so many defendants, lawyers, and documents, the judge is trying to set up a system to manage what could be an unwieldy trial. What makes it even harder is that not everyone's on the same page. The frustration is beginning to show. There are 29 defendants, even more lawyers, a 137 page...

In a stunning example of history repeating itself, an invasion of Chinese illegal immigrants is underway in the American Southwest and the authorities are doing everything they can to stop it. In the Nogales Sector of Arizona, 78 Chinese nationals were apprehended while trying to enter the US illegally through Mexico in October of this year alone. Between October 2008 and the end of August 2009, the Tucson Sector arrested 261 Chinese nationals according to Patrol Agent Colleen Agle. In the previous year only 30 had been captured. That is an 1100% increase in one year for Arizona. Texas has...

/begin my translation Imported Strategic Reserve Materials Paid with Dollars or HeroinUnit 772 is in charge...enormously powerful dealings with Chinese Mafia under the cover of legitimate business When N. Korea imports strategic reserve materials, they make payments with dollars as well as heroin. According to July issue of monthly magazine 'N. Korea,' N. Korea pays Chinese Mafia(organized crime syndicate) with heroin to import strategic materials such as grains, fuel oil, and medicine. They also pay with heroin when they do business with foreign ships on international waters. When making deals with Chinese Mafia, N. Koreans invited them under the cover...

THE world's notorious Chinese Mafia, regarded in some circles as a scion of the Chinese Triad, who are extremely dangerous and even feared by other criminal organisations, has reared its ugly head in Namibia in the form of spine-chilling violence, according to several local Chinese nationals residing in Namibia. A number of grave and vicious crimes involving Chinese nationals have been chronicled over the past few years in the local media. Now a man regarded as dangerous and widely sus-pected as the Capo di Capi, or rather the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Chinese Mafia, by one of his...