CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – A Clarksville business owner was cited after police found drug paraphernalia items for sale inside the store.

Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) Agents with the Special Operations Unit of the Clarksville Police Department visited the Q Pump at 411 Dover Rd. on June 29 to deliver a “Good News” letter. These letters are presented to businesses that refrain from selling alcohol to underage customers.

While the agents were inside the store, the found what was described as unlawful drug paraphernalia inside a glass case, including metal pipes, grinders, digital scales, and devices with hidden compartments. There were also several plastic containers containing glass pipes and shelves fill of bongs for sale.

A total of 1,934 assorted glass pipes were seized from the business along with 96 glass bongs, bong bowls, glass rose rods, glass push rods, 29 metal pipes, and 58 Viagra pills that were for sale.

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The owner of the business, Fanous Kamel, was misdemeanor cited for Unlawful Drug Paraphernalia.

“The Clarksville Police Department wants to educate local business owners about local, state and federal laws that they may unknowingly violate as well as deter the promotion of drug paraphernalia in the community to make it a safer place,” CPD Agent Jason Smock said in a press release.

Quoted, in part, State law T.C.A. 37-17-402 (12) (c) (1-10) classifies drug paraphernalia as:

(12) “Drug paraphernalia” means all equipment, products and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body, a controlled substance as defined in subdivision (4). “Drug paraphernalia” includes, but is not limited to:
(C) Objects used, intended for use, or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, marijuana concentrates, marijuana oil, cocaine, hashish, or hashish oil into the human body, such as:
(i) Metal, acrylic, glass, stone, or plastic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls;
(ii) Water pipes;
(iii) Carburetion tubes and devices;
(iv) Smoking and carburetion masks;
(v) Chamber pipes;
(vi) Carburetor pipes;
(vii) Electric pipes;
(viii) Chillums;
(ix) Bongs; and
(x) Ice pipes or chillers;