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But it gets better, or worse, however you are looking at it.

Their report is pretty comprehensive.

Great to see that local reporting is still alive and well in some parts of the US

It’s not easy to find a current photo of this individual!

The Maine Wire..

Since the first story broke, Mills has continued to facilitate real estate deals involving out-of-state cannabis entrepreneurs, including a cluster of Chinese growers who’ve opened up shop within miles of his home in New Sharon. As his sister vies for a position in the U.S. Senate, county property records and state cannabis records show no sign that the eager real estate attorney is moderating his involvement in the seedy world of cannabis to protect his older sibling from accusations that she’s soft on organized crime — and perhaps a little too comfortable with transnational criminal organizations the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department have linked to human trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, and the Chinese Communist Party.

On April 1, 2025, Somerset County sheriff’s deputies executed a warrant at a South Road property in Harmony and arrested Wenfeng Chen, 51, of Malden, Massachusetts. Inside, they found 1,405 marijuana plants, approximately 100 pounds of processed cannabis, a 9mm pistol, ammunition, and $1,600 in drug proceeds. Chen and his co-defendant, Xinwen Zhang, 71, of Boston, now face Class B felony charges — unlawful cultivation and drug trafficking — the kind of charges that can put you in prison for ten years, or get you deported.

It was the second time law enforcement had hit the same Harmony property. Deputies raided it in May 2024 and seized more than 1,200 plants, but no one was home.

Law enforcement would have to wait another eleven months to find Wenfeng Chen on the premises.

But one year before Chen was arrested with illicit drugs, cash, and a firearm, the Maine Wire photographed a 2017 Mercedes-Benz sedan bearing Massachusetts plates registered in Chen’s name at his Charles St. address in Malden, Mass.

The vehicle was parked at the site of a separate illicit cannabis grow, 51 Cider Hill Road in Corinna, where the local code enforcement officer had repeatedly denied requests from the owners to upgrade the electrical capacity because large-scale cannabis cultivation is illegal in that town.

Chen happened to share an address with Xiling Ou, 44, the man who owned the Corinna property until he gave it away, allegedly to his mother, Xiaoyu Lu of Guangdong Province, China.

The attorney who made that gift happen was Paul H. Mills — better known as the brother of Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), the woman currently vying for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination and a chance to square off against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.

The Corinna “Gift to Mother”

Paul Mills is 70-something, a Farmington lawyer with a 48-year career and more than 100 documented Franklin County deed transactions dating back to 1983. His firm, Mills & Mills, has handled the real estate needs of Franklin County for four decades — wills, estates, probate, property transfers. When this reporter called him for help with a fictitious deed in Penobscot County, the location of the illicit cannabis grow he helped transfer to the hands of a Chinese national, he declined the job, adding that he doesn’t work in that part of the state.

Read the full report at

Governor Silent as Chinese Cannabis Cartels Swallow Rural Maine — Some With Her Brother’s Help