DEA raids home and businesses of Biloxi Councilman Robert Deming III. What we know.
Mary Perez, Hannah Ruhoff
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The home and businesses of Biloxi Councilman Robert Deming III were raided Thursday by the Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement officers.
The DEA and local police searched his home on Caroline Lane in Biloxi, which is in the Taylor Oaks subdivision off Popp’s Ferry Road. They arrived on the scene around 9 a.m. and searched the home and an SUV and pickup truck in the driveway.
Deming was not home when they pulled up, said Chris Bell, resident agent in charge of the DEA in Gulfport, but he arrived soon after.
He has not been arrested or detained, Bell said.
Locations of The Candy Shop & Kratom in Biloxi, Gulfport and Ocean Springs also were searched, along with locations in Hattiesburg and two in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Bell said.
The investigation into the stores has been going on for about a year and a half, he said, and DEA was looking for documents in Deming’s home and businesses.
The DEA is continuing its investigation to see if anyone else is involved in the businesses, he said.
“We had complaints at the businesses in and around the Gulf Coast of products that were sold and having ill effects on people consuming them,” Bell said.
The concerns were with who the products were being sold to, their ages and the effects on “people who basically were ending up in hospitals over this,” he said.
A website that provides information about the sale of kratom in Mississippi says it can be sold to those age 18 or older.
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