KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — Police in Kannapolis were back at a local head shop Thursday afternoon, months after they warned the store's owners not to sell designer drugs, including synthetic marijuana.
Officers seized bags full of the fake pot during the raid that caught a lot of customers at the Razmataz Tattoo Shop by surprise.
"We received numerous complaints about this business selling synthetic marijuana," said Lt. Terry Spry.
Spry said officers had made undercover buys at the store of what turned out to be illegal synthetic marijuana.
Police said about a dozen people were in the store when they got there and about half a dozen more were outside, most of them said they did not know what was sold there.
"I thought what they had here was legal," said Karen Frazier.
But when police found a small glass pipe she admitted that she used it to smoke synthetic marijuana.
The manager of the store did not want to be quoted but shared a letter they had received from a laboratory in Richmond, Va., that claims that the material in the products is all legal.
Kannapolis police will have the material they seized tested before deciding on charges against the store's owners, but they said the raid serves is a reminder to buyers and sellers of designer drugs that they are watching those stores and will move in if they are breaking the law.
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