By: NICOLAS FIERRO
Salina Post
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) are conducting search warrants on various vape shops across the state and have arrived in Salina.
According to KBI Communications Director, Melissa Underwood, on Wednesday the state agency have visited the following vape shops with search warrants:
- EZ Smoke and Vape, 2011 N. West, (Wichita, KS)
- EZ Smoke and Vape, 997 S. Woodlawn, (Wichita, KS)
- Whiskey River Trading, 1230 E. 1st St., (Pratt, KS)
- Cigarette Outlet, 702 E. 1st St., (Pratt, KS)
- Pratt Tobacco and Vape, 301 S. Main, (Pratt, KS)
- Space Out Smoke Vapor & Tobacco, 2629 Market Place, Suite #C, (Salina, KS)
- Vapor 100, 220 W. Crawford, (Salina, KS)
- Mountain Gypsy Vape Shop, 1584 Lincoln St., (Concordia, KS)
- The Hanging Leaf, 106 S. Main, (McPherson, KS)
- Sacred Leaf, 2201 SW Gage Blvd, (Topeka, KS)
Attorney General, Kris Kobach stated from a livestream that the KBI in coordination with local law enforcement carried out raids (at the above locations) for allegedly selling marijuana and/or illegal THC products.
"For some time in recent years, enforcement of our law against marijuana and THC in Kansas have been intermittently or in some jurisdictions not enforced at all," said Kobach.
Click here to watch the full livestream.
Underwood added the investigations are ongoing and a press release will be provided soon.
Salina Post will provide updates once received