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Police: Convenience Stores Sold Crack Pipes To Customers

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Daytona Beach police said convenience store owners were selling crack pipes to customers and not even trying to hide it. Four store workers were arrested Wednesday during an undercover sting.

Most of the convenience stores that were raided were in the Ridgewood area. Three stores were busted for selling everything you need to smoke crack, except the crack.

"When you're selling this item as drug paraphernalia, it becomes a felony," explained Sgt. William Walden, Daytona Beach Police Department.

Eight convenience stores and four arrests were made because of a rose in a tube. At first, it could appear to be a chintzy gift for your sweetheart. Though most convenience store owners know what else it can be used for.

Not many will talk about it, although Wednesday undercover agents were calling it what it is.

"We told 'em flat out. 'We'd like to get a crack pipe,'" Sgt. Walden said.

Those who sold the vials were cuffed and hauled away.

Police said another bit of damning evidence was that some of the vendors gave a free piece of "Chore Boy" (like Brillo) with the vials. Crack users roll it up and stick it into the bottom of the vial. It acts like a crack filter.

"We weren't even asking for the Chore Boy, but, obviously, they knew how to complete the fashioning of them into an actual crack pipe," Sgt. Walden said.

Investigators said, if the owners can come up with another use for a vial and a complementary filter together, they will listen.

Police are actually surprised they made any arrests. The local Daytona paper ran a story on the rose-in-a-tube Wednesday morning against the wishes of the police. Police said they were lucky the suspects didn't read the paper.

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