Steve Robinson

And we've seen examples of this in Franklin County, Maine, like the western corner of Maine.

There was a house that the Franklin County Sheriff raided.

We showed up there maybe a day or two later.

And we're surveilling the house, and there's a truck from Grow Generation, which is a very prominent grow supply company.

Big box truck backed right up into the driveway, and a crew like five Chinese guys are offloading grow supplies.

This is two days after the place has been raided and a bunch of plants destroyed.

And I called the sheriff and I was like, hey, they're right back at it.

Just so you know, I'm watching them get this thing spun up again.

And he says, yeah, I know.

They say they're getting a permit now, so there's nothing I can do.

So once they get that permit, they're untouchable in law enforcement's eyes.

So the current approach, which is to act like you're dealing with dime store drug dealers or the guys in the 1980s who'd be growing a little bit of pot in their barn or something, that's not working.

You've got to go after the higher level, and you've got to go after the money.

And we're seeing glimpses of that.

in the form of the indictment that I mentioned earlier.

Leah Foley, the US attorney for the District of Massachusetts, handed down an indictment related to illegal Chinese marijuana grows in Massachusetts and in Maine.

These guys are busted living in a $1.5 million house in a cushy suburb in Massachusetts.

One of them even had a T-shirt

with a graphic on the front of it of Chinese guys who were taking US currency and putting it through a laundry machine, like actually laundering the money.

So just like a little too on the nose.