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":3,"featured_media":676864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,285216,7278,11307,51793,197331,285213,68583,1230,36424,130876,285215,113002,32521,3344,69586,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,285217,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,30345,237,285214],"class_list":["post-676863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","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-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-recreational-marijuana","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vape","tag-vaping","tag-vaping-prevention"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116280644603790263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}