One time I was building a home for a client on an Indian reservation in CA and the feds rolled in deep to take out a Chinese grow operation on tribal land. They were feeding the workers meth and heroin in exchange. They caused all sorts of problems including setting fire to the woods because they were all fucked up on drugs.
They all abandoned the property before the feds could arrest them probably because they had people on the inside or they had unknown watch spots to warn if the authorities were coming.
The reservations handle their own policing and call the feds in for that type of operation. The thing I felt though was that it was all some sort of game that the land owners got to sell the land to the chinese cartels, then kicked them off the land with the feds and then got to get cheap equipment from the bust (we are talking about free or cheap skid steers and generators and stuff, super important to have out there), and also get the land back. Rinse and repeat.