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Posted on Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 2 p.m.

Ypsilanti suspends dispensary's license for 60 days following DEA raid

By Tom Perkins

The city of Ypsilanti has temporarily suspended the license of a Cross Street dispensary that was recently raided by the Drug Enforcement Agency.

The Shop, at 513 W. Cross St, was raided by the Drug Enforcement Agency on July 30, though no charges have filed against its owners.

City attorney John Barr said the suspension was a result of city inspectors finding roaches, rolling papers and loose marijuana in and around an ashtray during an inspection of the business after the raid.

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The Shop dispensary on Cross Street in Ypsilanti.

Tom Perkins | For AnnArbor.com

Per city ordinance, consumption of medical marijuana is not allowed on the premises at medical marijuana dispensaries or grow operations, which City Planner Teresa Gillotti said was to prevent a social element from developing at the businesses.

Barr said he and City Manager Ralph Lange met with The Shop’s owners and their attorney on Aug. 8 and their attorney suggested the punishment.

Although the city can revoke a license for violating the terms of a city ordinance, Barr said he and Lange found the punishment appropriate. He said it was the business's first offense and there was only strong circumstantial evidence that medical marijuana was being used at the site.

“I wasn’t looking for a pound of flesh,” Barr said.

The Shop must remain closed for the next 60 days.

“They weren’t happy, I wasn’t totally happy with it, and that means it’s probably a good compromise,” Barr said.

This is the first time the city has discovered a violation at one of its medical marijuana dispensaries.

Representatives from The Shop couldn’t immediately be reached by AnnArbor.com.

Neither the DEA nor the Ypsilanti Police Department have brought charges, and Barr said DEA officials told him their report will remain sealed for 55 days.

If the The Shop’s owners are charged and convicted of an illegal activity, the city could hold another hearing and revoke their license permanently, Barr said.

Comments

Eduard Copely

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:34 p.m.

Up in smoke in Ypsilanti.

newsboy

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:25 p.m.

Tom the Michigan Supreme Court doesn't represent the will of the people in the State of Michigan. Lawlessness is abound in this prohibitive state because "we the people of this United State" do not trust, nor respect our Suspect Neighbors, Teachers, Doctors, Corporations, Elected Officials, Law Enforcement, High Courts, National Bugging Agency's, or our Multinational Military Industrial Corporation. And if you were wondering; I haven't smoked weed since I was a teenager. What would the pharmacist say if I asked for a glass of water while picking up (prescription pain medication)?

Aaron

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 4:21 a.m.

For those asking for more information regarding the company, the actual company name is "Cross Street Services INC". "The Shop" is not there legal name that they use for there business forms with the state. You can do a search on the Michigan government website to gain a little more detail about there corporate license.

Caring

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 : 6:47 p.m.

Thanks! Interesting! Even the bookkeeping service!

Aaron

Tue, Aug 13, 2013 : 3:56 p.m.

http://www.dleg.state.mi.us/bcs_corp/dt_corp.asp?id_nbr=03997M&name_entity=CROSS%20STREET%20SERVICE%20INC.

Caring

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 6:31 p.m.

Can you give more specific directions please?

Aaron

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 4:24 a.m.

If you are looking for the owners click on the document images tab on the michigan website once you find the license and they have the owners listed.

Tom Joad

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:52 a.m.

Just points to the ludicrously of a city government carving out an extralegal scheme to profit from the millions of dollars exchanging hands selling medical marijuana . The MMA doesn't provide for this type of retail sale of marijuana and the State Supreme Court has said as much in their ruling which is flagrantly ignored by many Michigan cities.

Jay Thomas

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 12:50 a.m.

Forgot to ask but why are the owner's names top secret?

Aaron

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 4:25 a.m.

I found the documents with there names on it, search for cross street services on the Michigan LARA website and click on document images.

clara

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:48 a.m.

The DEPOT TOWN DISPENSARY on E Cross is listed in the County records but there is no "the Shop" or "The Shop dispensary" listed as a business in this county.

clara

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:42 a.m.

Good point. There doesn't seem to be a way to search on the city web site either. The county has the owner of the property listed. But the business "The Shop" doesn't seem to be.

Jay Thomas

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 12:48 a.m.

Places like this help to make that Cross street area CRIME CITY.

Jay Thomas

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 11:55 p.m.

Only my eyes. I see the people that roam around that area (even when they don't live there). I've been accosted there. There is or was some NGO for poor people (paid with county money) there too (which results in the government assistance crowd coming in by bus). Forgot what it does. But I know U of M students don't have to put up with this nonsense. This area is at least tied with WSU for the worst student Ghetto in the state.

daywell

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 8:46 p.m.

It's been that way for a long, long time.

Homeland Conspiracy

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 12:07 p.m.

Do have any kind of proof to back up that statement?

clara

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 11:34 p.m.

or were they the running around kind of roaches?

clara

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 11:33 p.m.

Don't you usually find roaches with marijuana? I mean, after you smoke it?

Speedy Squirrel

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 11:15 p.m.

Get rid of this place. The DEA raid was an embarrassment to the whole city.

daywell

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 8:45 p.m.

Or, the whole city is an embarrassment period.

15crown00

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 8:26 p.m.

sorry you lost

Goofus

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 6:27 p.m.

Sketchiest of all the local dispensaries. No surprise.

Homeland Conspiracy

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 6:23 p.m.

Isn't there more important things to worry about... Heroin & Cocaine are a real problem not a roach & rolling papers. Come on Obama we need JOBS & stop using tax payers money to bust pot dispensaries. DEA = Keystone Cops The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $500 per second.

quillory

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 6:17 p.m.

It's always a good plan to spellcheck headlines. (Unless there IS such a thing as a dispenary, in which case please accept my apologies.)

Eduard Copely

Mon, Aug 12, 2013 : 1:33 p.m.

Yeah, spelling. It's so optional, right?

Homeland Conspiracy

Sun, Aug 11, 2013 : 6:24 p.m.

The Spell Police are at it again.