After a search of the Georgetown Smoke and Vape store on Tuesday, police arrested the shop’s proprietor and an worker for allegedly promoting THC vape cartridges with no license.
The division was beforehand notified that the shop, positioned at 7 W. Fundamental St., was promoting unlawful merchandise and launched an investigation, Georgetown Police Division mentioned in an announcement. An spy bought eight THC vape cartridges, and a youth purchased two packs of flavored nicotine merchandise, police say.
Working in collaboration with the Massachusetts Division of Income and a neighborhood tobacco coverage group, officers seized a whole bunch of THC marijuana vape cartridges and a number of other instances of flavored tobacco merchandise, police say.
The shop’s proprietor, Ram Gupta, 30, and an worker, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, 29, had been taken into custody on arrest warrants. They had been each charged with distribution of a category C substance, possession with intent to distribute a category C substance, delivering cigarettes to a minor, sale of flavored tobacco, and conspiracy to violate drug legal guidelines, in keeping with authorities.
Gupta and Yadav had been launched on $5,000 money bail and will likely be arraigned on Wednesday in Haverhill District Court docket, the assertion mentioned.
“On behalf of the Georgetown Police Division, I need to categorical gratitude to the Massachusetts Division of Income, the North Shore/Cape Ann Tobacco Coverage Program and the Georgetown Board of Well being for his or her help with this investigation,” Georgetown Police Chief David Sedgwick mentioned within the assertion. “I additionally need to commend the officers who led this investigation to a profitable conclusion.”
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