Steve Robinson

Okay, so we're not talking about armed vehicles.

No, I've never seen people carrying guns.

I've heard stories from neighbors about them being alarmed by hearing target practice and gunfire.

I've never seen anyone armed with guns.

I've been chased off a lot of sites by angry guys driving black Toyotas.

They all love black Toyotas for some reason.

I don't know what it is.

They love Toyotas.

But they, by and large, don't flaunt firearms.

I've heard... I have some sources who have done work on these properties because...

Once in a while, it's necessary for them to interact with white contractors if they need propane work, for example, if they need electrical work.

There are some things that they can't do themselves.

They prefer to do all of their handiwork themselves because it doesn't allow eyes peeping into what might be happening there.

But I've heard stories about large grows in very rural parts of the state where there are an abundance of military age men dressed similarly.

It was described to me as fatigues, close crop hair.

And one of the things like an electrician, for example, will do when they're installing 400 amp service at a barn in rural Maine is,

So they'll go inside and do load testing to try and make sure that everything's worked out.

And this individual told me, you know, when he tried to go inside to do load testing, which is something he's done hundreds of times at all of the properties he's visited, two guys, two Chinese guys grabbed him, stopped him and said, no, and physically escorted him off the property and stuffed two $100 bills in his back pocket and said, coffee money, coffee money, coffee money, and pushed him off the property.

And we've had a lot of stories like that of technicians being met at the driveway of facilities and told they can't enter, even though they'd been called to help service some kind of electrical need.

There've been a lot of, I would say, alarming stories, and there's definitely a pattern of co-location with sensitive infrastructure and military facilities in Maine.