Six vape shop employees are facing charges for allegedly selling vape products to minors at various Long Island businesses.
After recieving numerous complaints from the community, a compliance check up was conducted on 24 buisnesses in Suffolk County, on Thursday, Feb. 23.
The employees from these locations were arrested and charged with second-degree unlawfully dealing with a child:
- East Northport Smoke Shop, located at 250B Larkfield Road in East Northport
- Green Leaf Smoke Shop, located at 247 Broadway in Greenlawn
- Cloud Empire Smoke Shop, located at 108 Broadway in Greenlawn
Employees of these following businesses were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal sale of cannabis:
- Cigar House Smoke and Vape Shop, located at 594 Walt Whitman Road in Melville
- Intense Smoke, located at 532 Walt Whitman Road in Melville
Additionally a sixth employee at Nirvana Smoke Shop, located on East Jericho Turnpike in Huntington, was charged with unlawfully dealing with a child and criminal sale of cannabis.
The six employees have been issued field appearance tickets and are scheduled to attend in First District Court in Central Islip.
According to Suffolk County Police,out of the 24 businesses in Suffolk County only 18 other businessses were checked for compliance with no violations found.