LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A 19-year-old man faces felony expenses after a five-week investigation into the sale of THC vapes to minors, based on the Bullhead Metropolis (Arizona) Police Division.
Matthew Felix Swaim was taken into custody throughout a site visitors cease close to Oliver Drive and Patillo Drive in Bullhead Metropolis. On Wednesday evening, officers served a search warrant at Swaim’s residence within the 400 block of Santa Maria Highway, the place gadgets “consistent with the sales and distribution of THC vapes” had been seized, based on police.
Police mentioned in addition they discovered a handgun and counterfeit cash on the residence.
Bullhead Metropolis’s Neighborhood Oriented Policing Part (COPS) initiated an investigation in January after experiences that somebody was promoting vapes to highschool youngsters. The COPS group recognized Swaim as a suspect with the help of narcotics detectives and college officers.
The THC vapes had been lately seized at a junior highschool and excessive faculties within the space. THC is the lively ingredient in marijuana.
Swaim was booked into the Mohave County Jail in Kingman, the place he faces expenses described as “drug offenses involving minors, possession of marijuana for sale, possession of drug paraphernalia, use of wire communication or electronic communication for drug transactions, forgery, and misconduct involving weapons,” based on info launched by police.
Bullhead Metropolis is a group of about 43,000 individuals on the Arizona aspect of the Colorado River, about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
