NEW CUMBERLAND — Hancock County Magistrate Ralph Fletcher hopes that the Newell manager of a convenient store learned his lesson regarding selling tobacco, alcohol, CBD and THC products to underage persons.

As part of a plea deal, defendant Hamdan Alhawshabi had to promise to not sell any more CBD and THC products as well as to check IDs to make sure customers buying tobacco lottery tickets and alcoholic beverages are legally permitted to do so in the State of West Virginia before selling to them.

In exchange, as part of the arrangement, Alhawshabi pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription

He was sentenced to a $100 fine, court costs, a suspended six-month jail sentence and put on unsupervised probation for one year.

The case against his co-defendant Abdulrashid Alhawshabi, who owns Phillie’s Drive-Thru, was continued once again for the sixth time, according to the online case docket. No future court date has been listed online.

Abdulrashid Alhawshabi is charged with two counts of possessing a Schedule I or II controlled substance with the intent to deliver and remains out on $40,000 property/surety bond.

Members of the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force, along with Hancock County deputies, had executed a search warrant last spring at Phillie’s as a result of numerous complaints the store was participating in sales of THC products to underage persons as well as selling products that exceeded the state’s legal limit for THC.

According to Hancock County Sheriff Scott Gittings, products must not exceed concentrations of 0.3 percent and purchasers must be age 21 or older per West Virginia law.

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