Owners still facing charges, but back making sales after hemp raid at South Fulton vape shop

The owners of South Fulton vape store are blessed their store is backmost unfastened and they’re making income respective months aft constabulary raided it and arrested them.

The store connected Campbellton Road was closed for astir 5 months earlier the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returned the products seized during the raid aft investigating them.

Channel 2′s Tyisha Fernandes archetypal reported connected the raid and arrests erstwhile they happened successful May 2024.

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The owners told her they are inactive traumatized by the raid, but are gladsome to beryllium backmost down the counter.

“They had astir six, 7 guns connected me,” proprietor Shaizan Rhoja said. “And I was truly scared.”

“We conscionable thought they were coming present to cheque connected the stuff,” Kim Jivani said.

The sibling store owners accidental constabulary wrongfully raided their store and took thousands of dollars of hemp products.

They’ve spent the past 5 months warring to get their licence back.

“It feels bully but the happening is: the customers we were saying backmost then, we’re not capable to spot the aforesaid customers again,” Rhoja said.

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Police accidental store employees sold amerciable hemp products to an undercover officer, which led to the raid.

The owners accidental they were selling ineligible hemp, according to Georgia laws. They judge South Fulton constabulary don’t cognize each the hemp laws.

Police accidental they followed the instrumentality and are holding onto what they accidental is amerciable marijuana, which they accidental an undercover detective bought from the store.

The store owners accidental they are inactive warring those charges and are hoping to person their lawsuit basal backmost soon.

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