Alcohol Tobacco and Cannabis Commission conducts raids at Southeast Baltimore businesses
May 22, 2025
SEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANTS. THAT’S RIGHT. JASON. ASHLEY. AND THOSE RAIDS HAPPENING AT FOUR LOCATIONS RIGHT HERE IN FELLS POINT. TODAY WE KNOW ALSO OF ANOTHER LOCATION IN A DIFFERENT SOUTHEAST BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD. THE ATCC THAT’S THE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND CANNABIS COMMISSION. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO CONDUCTED THOSE RAIDS, TELLING US TONIGHT THEY DID SO BECAUSE OF COMPLAINTS OF POSSIBLE THE POSSIBLE SELLING OF ILLEGAL MARIJUANA PRODUCTS. MARYLAND ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND CANNABIS COMMISSION, OR ATCC AGENTS OUTSIDE OF A FELLS POINT BUSINESS THIS WEDNESDAY. I WALKED BY AND I SAW A LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS, A LOT OF POLICE DETECTIVES WITH THE ATCC INSIGNIA ON THEIR CHEST, AND THEY WERE HAULING OUT BOXES AND BOXES OF MATERIAL. EDWARD MARCINKO, WITNESSING ONE OF FOUR RAIDS HAPPENING IN FELLS POINT. THE ATCC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CONFIRMING THE EIGHTH KINGDOM WEED DISPENSARY, BALTIMORE ON EASTERN AVENUE, WAS ONE OF THE PLACES AGENTS SERVED A SEARCH AND SEIZURE WARRANT FOR SUSPICION OF SELLING ILLEGAL MARIJUANA PRODUCTS, MEANING THEY ARE NOT LICENSED THROUGH THE MARYLAND CANNABIS ADMINISTRATION TO LEGALLY SELL CERTAIN THC PRODUCTS. I HEARD RUMORS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ALLEGEDLY THEY WERE SELLING UNREGULATED PRODUCTS. ATCC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JEFFREY KELLY TELLING 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES ATCC AGENTS ASSISTED BY BALTIMORE POLICE, SERVED THE WARRANTS TO FOUR BUSINESSES, INCLUDING SMOKE SHOPS IN FELLS POINT AND ONE IN FEDERAL HILL. HE SAYS THEY DID NOT SHUT ANY OF THE BUSINESSES DOWN AND SEIZED, ONLY SUSPECTED ILLEGAL MARIJUANA FROM EACH PLACE. SOUTHEAST COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRANT FISHER CALLS THE RAIDS CONCERNING. REALLY KIND OF MADE ME KIND OF WONDER WHAT’S GOING ON, WHICH MAKES ME WANT TO KIND OF GO BACK TO OUR STATE AND CITY OFFICIALS TO KIND OF SAY, HEY, WHAT’S WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON WITH SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES. IN THE ATCC. DID ADD THAT SOMETIMES BUSINESSES WILL ACTUALLY LABEL THEMSELVES AS DISPENSARIES, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY NOT HAVE THE PROPER LICENSING THROUGH THE STATE, MEANING THEY ARE NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO SELL CERTAIN THC PRODUCTS. WE DID ASK FOR THE NAMES OF THE OTHER BUSINESSES THAT WERE VISITED TODAY AND SERVED TODAY, BUT THE ATCC DID NOT RELEASE THOSE TO US TONIGHT. LI
Alcohol Tobacco and Cannabis Commission conducts raids at Southeast Baltimore businesses
The ATCC served search and seizure warrants to four businesses in Fells Point, including smoke shops and one business in Federal Hill Wednesday
The Maryland Alcohol Tobacco and Cannabis Commission (ATCC) served several Southeast Baltimore businesses with search and seizure warrants on Wednesday. ATCC Executive Director, Jeffrey Kelly told 11 News Investigates they were serving warrants to businesses who are under suspicion of selling illegal marijuana products.Kelly did not release the names of all the businesses, which included smoke shops, but said agents went to four locations in Fells Point and one in Federal Hill. However, Kelly did confirm the 8th Kingdom Marijuana Weed Dispensary was one of the four locations in Fells Point. “I walked by, and I saw a lot of police officers, a lot of police detectives with the ATCC insignia on their chest, and they were hauling out boxes and boxes of material,” said Edward Marcinko, a Fells Point resident. “I heard rumors in the neighborhood, allegedly they were selling unregulated products (and) that disturbs me. We have schools within two, three blocks of this.” The ATCC said sometimes places will label themselves as dispensaries despite not being licensed through the Maryland Cannabis Administration. Without being licensed through the state, Kelly said it’s illegal to be selling certain THC products. “It’s concerning because a lot of these neighborhoods are fairly quiet, and new businesses are popping up. We’re seeing a lot more of the smoke shops that are popping up,” said President of the Southeast Community Relations Council, Brant Fisher. “It really kind of made me kind of wonder what’s going on, which makes me want to kind of go back to our state and city officials to kind of say, hey, what’s really going on with some of these businesses?”ATCC said they did not shut any of the businesses down; they only seized suspected illegal marijuana from each place.
The Maryland Alcohol Tobacco and Cannabis Commission (ATCC) served several Southeast Baltimore businesses with search and seizure warrants on Wednesday.
ATCC Executive Director, Jeffrey Kelly told 11 News Investigates they were serving warrants to businesses who are under suspicion of selling illegal marijuana products.
Kelly did not release the names of all the businesses, which included smoke shops, but said agents went to four locations in Fells Point and one in Federal Hill. However, Kelly did confirm the 8th Kingdom Marijuana Weed Dispensary was one of the four locations in Fells Point.
“I walked by, and I saw a lot of police officers, a lot of police detectives with the ATCC insignia on their chest, and they were hauling out boxes and boxes of material,” said Edward Marcinko, a Fells Point resident. “I heard rumors in the neighborhood, allegedly they were selling unregulated products (and) that disturbs me. We have schools within two, three blocks of this.”
The ATCC said sometimes places will label themselves as dispensaries despite not being licensed through the Maryland Cannabis Administration. Without being licensed through the state, Kelly said it’s illegal to be selling certain THC products.
“It’s concerning because a lot of these neighborhoods are fairly quiet, and new businesses are popping up. We’re seeing a lot more of the smoke shops that are popping up,” said President of the Southeast Community Relations Council, Brant Fisher. “It really kind of made me kind of wonder what’s going on, which makes me want to kind of go back to our state and city officials to kind of say, hey, what’s really going on with some of these businesses?”
ATCC said they did not shut any of the businesses down; they only seized suspected illegal marijuana from each place.
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