{"id":696,"date":"2021-08-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBMicWh0dHBzOi8vY29ubmVjdGljdXQubmV3czEyLmNvbS9wb2xpY2UtZ3Vucy1leHRyZW1lbHktbGFyZ2UtYW1vdW50cy1vZi1tYXJpanVhbmEtc2VpemVkLWZyb20tYnJpZGdlcG9ydC1zbW9rZS1zaG9w0gEA"},"modified":"2021-08-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:00:00","slug":"police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Police: Guns, &#8216;extremely large amounts of marijuana&#8217; seized from Bridgeport smoke shop &#8211; News 12 Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><span class=\"author\">News 12 Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"date\">Aug 17, 2021, 3:54pm<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"datetime\">\n<p><span class=\"text\">Updated on: <!-- -->Aug 17, 2021, 3:54pm<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hero\"><img data-testid=\"hero_image\"><\/div>\n<p>Three men have been arrested following a police search that turned up &#8220;extremely large amounts of marijuana&#8221; and two handguns from a Bridgeport smoke shop, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made Monday at Smokers Box on Park Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Officers seized two handguns &#8211; a stolen 9 mm pistol and a 9 mm pistol with a high-capacity magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also located marijuana, THC vape devices, untaxed cigarettes and edible THC that were all priced for sale inside the store. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators arrested 33-year-old Andrew Friday, 22-year-old Ahmed Nagi and 22-year-old Luis Navarro-Morales.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the business also sold marijuana to undercover police officers and that the business does not possess a dispensary permit or license to sell recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<div> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut.jpg\" alt> <em><\/em>\n<\/div>\n<div> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut-1.jpg\" alt> <em><\/em>\n<\/div>\n<div> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut-2.jpg\" alt> <em><\/em>\n<\/div>\n<div> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut-3.jpg\" alt> <em><\/em>\n<\/div>\n<div> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut-4.jpg\" alt> <em><\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 Staff Aug 17, 2021, 3:54pm Updated on: Aug 17, 2021, 3:54pm Three men have been arrested following a police search that turned up &#8220;extremely large amounts of marijuana&#8221; and two handguns from a Bridgeport smoke shop, police say. The discovery was made Monday at Smokers Box on Park Avenue. Officers seized two handguns &#8211; a stolen 9 mm pistol and a 9 mm pistol with a high-capacity magazine. Officers also located marijuana, THC vape devices, untaxed cigarettes and edible THC that were all priced for sale inside the store. Investigators arrested 33-year-old Andrew Friday, 22-year-old Ahmed Nagi and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/police-guns-extremely-large-amounts-of-marijuana-seized-from-bridgeport-smoke-shop-news-12-connecticut.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}