NEWELL, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Two people have been arrested after selling THC products to teens at a West Virginia convenience store.
On Thursday, the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office along with members of the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force, served a search warrant and arrested 2 individuals at Phillies Quick Stop on Washington St. in Newell.
Warrants were a result of an investigation done by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton DTF and the WV State Police BCI.
The Sheriff’s Office has been looking into the sale of products with THC, many of the sales being to teens as young as 13 years old, with these products ending up in local schools.
WV Code limits the sale of products with THC, the maximum amount allowed is 0.3%. All the sales obtained in this investigation were much higher, with some edible products tested by police at 46.8 %, which is 156 times the amount allowed by state code.
According to police, the main reason for these actions today was the fact of the amount that was in these products. They were freely selling to younger people well under the age of 18.
Arrested was Abulrashid F Alhawshabi of Weirton, WV. He was charged with 1 count of possession of a controlled substance and 1 count of delivery of a controlled substance. He was released on a $40,000.00 bond.
The second arrested was Hamdan F Alhawshabi of Newell, WV, 1 count of delivery of a controlled substance. He was released on a $25,000.00 bond.
