BABYLON, NY — A Deer Park convenience store was busted on Monday for selling flavored vape products, according to Town of Babylon officials.
The Town of Babylon Investigative Unit confiscated nearly 900 illegal flavored vapes from AAA Convenience Shop at 181 Bay Shore Road in Deer Park, officials said.
“These flavored vape products such as strawberry banana, blueberry watermelon, black cherry, cherry bomb and many other nicotine flavored vape products are meant to target children to get them hooked on nicotine products,” officials said.
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The bust follows the September 10 closure of a North Babylon convenience store after the Town of Babylon busted and employee for selling vape products to an underage customer at Milk N’ Things on Deer Park Avenue.
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The town’s Code Enforcement team ordered the store to close indefinitely and also seized numerous illegal flavored vape products from the store, police said.
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The order prohibits occupancy of the building and states that violating the order is a “Class A misdemeanor which is punishable by up to a year in prison.
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