The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, Summerville Police Department and Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force executed two search warrants and four arrest warrants, after an undercover investigation which spanned several months.

Those warrants were recently executed at the Mountain Top store in Cloudland and at the Smoke Shop located in the Ingles Shopping Center.

The Mountain View BP station, located just north of Trion on Highway 27, was also involved in the investigation and arrest warrants were issued there as well.

During the course of that investigation the agents purchased products commonly referred to as “synthetic marijuana” from the store owners and from store employees.

A search warrant at the Smoke Shop in Summerville turned up four packages of the illegal drug, and resulted in the arrest of storeowners Sunil M and Mayurika S. Patel with each being charged with two counts of Sale of a Controlled Substance.

A search of the Mountain Top store in Cloudland, netted 27 packages of the illegal drug, and the owner of the store – Atish Patel – was arrested and charged with six counts of the Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Distribute and six counts of Sale of a Controlled Substance.

Meanwhile the owner/operator of the Mountain View BP – Pravinkumar Patel – was arrested and charged with two counts of the Sale of a Controlled Substance.

Cash was also seized from the businesses.

Additional charges could be forthcoming.

(Coosa Valley News/www.coosavalleynews.com)