The Navajo Nation has filed charges against two men, alleging they were illegally growing large amounts of marijuana near Shiprock in 2020. Federal, tribal and state law enforcement at the time found and destroyed about a quarter of a million plants The Nation is charging Dineh Benally and Farley Blue-Eyes with six criminal complaints in connection with the grow operation, … [Read more...] about Navajo Nation charges two men with illegally growing marijuana
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Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land
FILE - Dineh Benally poses for a photograph before a Navajo Nation presidential forum at a tribal casino outside Flagstaff, Ariz., Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Chinese workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit … [Read more...] about Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land
