Five smoke shops were shut down and multiple arrests made following a coordinated operation targeting illegal marijuana and vape sales in Jersey City, officials said.<\/p>\n
The raids followed a weekslong investigation prompted by community complaints about unregulated marijuana sales and prohibited goods, including flavored vape products marketed to minors.<\/p>\n
Investigators recovered nearly 16 pounds of suspected marijuana, as well as more than 600 plastic bags of suspected controlled substances, and seized about $9,000 believed to be proceeds from narcotics sales, police said.<\/p>\n
Working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Jersey City police also confiscated numerous THC and vape products, including flavored vape cartridges, THC-infused gummy packages, candy-style THC pouches and mushroom-infused bars.<\/p>\n
Health officials estimated the seized gummies represented approximately 400,000 individual 10-milligram THC doses, an amount officials said exceeded what would be expected for legal distribution.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a precision, multi-agency enforcement effort built on intelligence, community complaints, and strong investigative work,\u201d Acting Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said in a statement. \u201cWe are not only shutting down illegal operations, we are dismantling the networks behind them and holding bad actors accountable for their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The following businesses were shut down as part of the operation: Paper & Grabba Tobacco, Da Spot Smoke Shop, Highline Premium, All Stars Smoke Shop and Duncan Smokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five smoke shops were shut down and multiple arrests made following a coordinated operation targeting illegal marijuana and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70413,2834,3283,25794,70409,70410,53858,7317,9197,24368,70412,30430,11487,6210,25795,9,11,10,33533,70414,47393,70411],"class_list":["post-172597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-anti-vaping-campaign","tag-arrested","tag-arrests","tag-drug-bust","tag-drug-dealer","tag-drug-takedown","tag-drug-use","tag-drugs","tag-federal-agents","tag-federal-oversight","tag-flavored-vapes","tag-hudson-county","tag-jersey-city","tag-marijuana","tag-narcotics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-recreational-marijuana","tag-vape","tag-vaping","tag-vaping-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}