"More than a dozen people walked past the parked police cars Friday morning up to the door of the Magical Incense Shop that was guarded by police officers with a simple question:
"When's the shop open?"
One of the men even tried to reach past Mechanicsburg Police Chief David Spotts to get to the door, Spotts said.
The downtown Mechanicsburg shop didn't open Friday. And Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed wants to keep the shop -- which he alleges has been selling synthetic designer drugs for years -- closed permanently. Freed closed the store under a temporary injunction signed by Cumberland County Judge Albert Masland. A hearing on the injunction will be held Tuesday, Freed said.
"I hope it sticks," Spotts said. "It will make the borough safer. It will make it a better place."
The Drug Task Force confiscated thousands of items investigators believe to be synthetic drugs, Freed said. The material will be tested in the coming weeks and months. If it proves to be synthetic drugs, Freed said the shop's owner, Theodore W. Zeiders, 45, of Mechanicsburg, could be charged under the state's designer drug law. If that is the case, prosecutors will also initiate a civil forfeiture case against Zeiders, Freed said.
Zeiders had not been charged Friday. He was not at his Mechanicsburg home and could not be reached for comment.
At a press conference, Freed showed off some of what investigators seized from the shop, including a big bag of what investigators believe is synthetic marijuana, Binger Clean (lab tests have found other batches of Binger Clean bought from Magical Incense to be chemically similar to methamphetamines, according to the search warrant) and something called a Liquidizer, which was sold with syringes. A single dose of Binger Clean sold for $60, Spotts said."
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"When's the shop open?"
One of the men even tried to reach past Mechanicsburg Police Chief David Spotts to get to the door, Spotts said.
The downtown Mechanicsburg shop didn't open Friday. And Cumberland County District Attorney David Freed wants to keep the shop -- which he alleges has been selling synthetic designer drugs for years -- closed permanently. Freed closed the store under a temporary injunction signed by Cumberland County Judge Albert Masland. A hearing on the injunction will be held Tuesday, Freed said.
"I hope it sticks," Spotts said. "It will make the borough safer. It will make it a better place."
The Drug Task Force confiscated thousands of items investigators believe to be synthetic drugs, Freed said. The material will be tested in the coming weeks and months. If it proves to be synthetic drugs, Freed said the shop's owner, Theodore W. Zeiders, 45, of Mechanicsburg, could be charged under the state's designer drug law. If that is the case, prosecutors will also initiate a civil forfeiture case against Zeiders, Freed said.
Zeiders had not been charged Friday. He was not at his Mechanicsburg home and could not be reached for comment.
At a press conference, Freed showed off some of what investigators seized from the shop, including a big bag of what investigators believe is synthetic marijuana, Binger Clean (lab tests have found other batches of Binger Clean bought from Magical Incense to be chemically similar to methamphetamines, according to the search warrant) and something called a Liquidizer, which was sold with syringes. A single dose of Binger Clean sold for $60, Spotts said."
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