Long Island ‘candy man’ busted after middle-schoolers flip out on weed gummies: cops

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A Long Island teen sold a stash of cannabis gummies to a local middle-school student — who then doled them out to his buddies and made the kids sick enough to be hospitalized, cops said Tuesday.

Jahsheem Jones, 18, of Mastic Beach peddled the gummies to a student at William Paca Middle School in May, with the youngster then sharing them with his pals and landing “multiple” kids in the hospital, Suffolk County Police said in a press release.

In all, about a dozen students, ages 13 and 14, were sickened by the THC-laced gummies at the school, which is part of the William Floyd School District, police said.

Cannabis buds, chewy gummy edibles, and a cannabis leaf on a dark background.About a dozen middle-school students on Long Island got sick from weed gummies and ended up hospitalized. S.Price – stock.adobe.com
Suffolk County Police car parked at the Blue Point Fishing Pier.Jahsheem Jones, 18, of Mastic Beach was charged with endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly handing out gummies. James Messerschmidt

The incident drew massive amounts of both police and local EMTs to the school at the time, according to a statement from the William Floyd School District.

Suffolk cops launched an investigation, which led to Jones’ home on Robinwood Drive.

He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and release on a desk appearance ticket and is due to return to First District Court in Islip at a future date, police said.

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