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NEW CUMBERLAND -- A month after his co-defendant took a plea to a lesser charge, a Hancock County magistrate has rescheduled a status hearing date for the owner of a Newell convenience store yet again.
This makes the seventh time that Abdulrashid Alhawshabi, of Weirton, has had his hearing continued, according to the online case docket. The new court date set before Magistrate Ralph Fletcher is at 9:20 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5.
Alhawshabi is charged with two counts of felony possession or intent to deliver a Schedule I or II narcotic.
Messages left to the Hancock County prosecutor and sheriff's offices were not returned Thursday.
Last month, Phillie's Quick Stop manager (and co-defendant) Hamdan Alhawshabi entered a plea to a misdemeanor charge of one count of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He also promised Fletcher that not only would he not sell CBD (cannabidiol) or THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the psychoactive ingredient in the cannibis plant) products, but would check IDs of potential customers buying tobacco, lottery tickets and alcoholic beverages to confirm that they meet the West Virginia legal age before selling to the customers.
As a result, Hamdan Alhawshabi was fined $100 plus costs, received a suspended six-month jail sentence and was put
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 an investigation into alleged illegal sales of products to persons under age 21 and that exceed the legal limit of .3 percent THC within the state of West Virginia.
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