Seven Chinese nationals were charged on July 8 for allegedly running a multi-million-dollar marijuana trafficking network in the suburban neighborhoods of Massachusetts and Maine, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Prosecutors alleged that the defendants turned single-family properties in Massachusetts and Maine into covert interconnected grow houses for cultivating and distributing “kilogram-sized quantities” of marijuana in bulk, which started in January 2020, according to a DOJ statement.
All but one defendant—Yanrong Zhu, 47, of Greenfield Massachusetts, and Brooklyn, New York, who remains at large—have been arrested. Those arrested are Jianxiong Chen, Yuxiong Wu, Dinghui Li, Dechao Ma, Peng Lian Zhu, and Hongbin Wu, all aged between 35 and 39….
7 Chinese Nationals Charged Over Marijuana Trafficking in Massachusetts, Maine
