{"id":448236,"date":"2026-09-26T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448236\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:02:24","slug":"north-texas-smoke-shop-raids-seize-5-million-vehicles-and-illegal-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448236\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas smoke shop raids seize $5 million, vehicles and illegal drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/scorpion-smoke-shop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Millions of dollars and thousands of grams of illicit substances were seized during a multi-agency smoke shop raid led by the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>   Scorpion Smoke Shop Investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">As part of the operation, officers served search warrants at 13 Scorpion Smoke Shop locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers seized approximately:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> 11,468 suspected THC products5,475 grams of marijuana33,455 grams of THC33,867 grams of psilocybin mushrooms23 vehiclesNearly $5 million in U.S. currency and other assets. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">During the investigation, DPS Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Agents found smokable THC and hemp-derived products being sold, despite nearly two months passing since the state clarified the law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police say there have not been any arrests at this time. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DPS officials noted that this operation is part of broader ongoing efforts to find businesses unlawfully selling non-compliant THC and hemp products in Texas.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/new-texas-https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/news\/new-texas-thc-rules-to-go-into-effect-fridaythc-rules-to-go-into-effect-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">state rules<\/a>, consumable THC products below 0.3% remain legal. However, laboratory analysis of certain products identified delta-9 THC concentrations as high as 26%. Products exceeding the 0.3% threshold, or products containing other THC derivatives, cannot be sold in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this article comes from the Texas Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Millions of dollars and thousands of grams of illicit substances were seized during a multi-agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-448236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}