Crime & Safety
Police Seize 'Cloud Nine,' So Store Owners Sue and Win Settlements
The owners of several Missouri convenience stores will receive tens of thousands of dollars in settlements negotiated by a Clayton law firm after authorities took what they claimed to be merchandise containing synthetic drugs, CSPnet.com reported.
Several Missouri convenience-store owners will receive tens of thousands of dollars in connection with a case in which police seized hundreds of packets they claimed held illegal synthetic drugs with names such as Cloud Nine, the website CSPnet.com reported.
Attorneys with law firm Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal helped negotiate the settlements.
Quoting from the CSPnet.com article:
"When Stoddard County sheriff's deputies, along with Dexter Police, confiscated packets containing synthetic or 'analogue' drugs from six convenience stores in July 2011, it was with the compliance of shop owners, managers and in one case, a store employee. Each was handed a letter at the time of the confiscation ... informing them of the county's stance regarding the sale of 'imitation controlled substances'—the target of the confiscation."
Learn why several store owners filed lawsuits after the seizures and won settlements in the complete CSPnet.com article.
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