The New York Sheriff’s Department arrested two people and seized bags of marijuana in evidence after a raid on a store illegally selling marijuana in Brooklyn.
FOX 5 NY visited the store less than a month ago where workers said they had nothing to hide.
Big Chief, located at 4th Avenue and 74th Street in Bay Ridge, was searched by the New York Sheriff’s Department, who made two arrests and confiscated boxes and bags of evidence.
Big Chief in Brooklyn is one of many stores and dispensaries in New York City that sell unlicensed cannabis products. The owners say they have applied for one and are waiting to hear. The state Bureau of Cannabis Management said these companies are breaking the law.
“It’s a danger to the community,” New York Sheriff Anthony Miranda said. “When you start selling these products to sell to kids and others around, no one in their neighborhood wants that.”
A year ago, New York decriminalized recreational marijuana and established the rules for issuing
licenses for retail sales, but in that time, despite warnings, weed shops like Big Chief have popped
up all over the city and blew up the gun on retail sales .
Brooklyn City Council member Justin Brennan said while he supports legalization, stores like Big Chief that sell untested and illegal products without a license must be closed.
Last month, the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Management told FOX 5 NY that smoking shops and weed stores that are hasty in the retail sale of marijuana will not be granted licenses.
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