Nicotine, tobacco pens seized from gas station in Merced County

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over 40 flavored nicotine, baccy pens were seized from a Mobil Gas Station successful Hilmar aft an amerciable merchantability to an underage decoy, the sheriff's bureau said.

Deputies coordinated with the Merced County Public Health connected Oct. 2 to trial retired businesses and marque definite they were not selling to those underage. The cognition was to marque definite that businesses wrong the Hilmar and Stevinson areas bash not merchantability baccy products to underage minors.

Deputies said that an worker astatine the Mobil Gas Station, located connected Lander Avenue successful Hilmar, did merchantability a baccy merchandise to a minor.

The amerciable merchantability resulted successful the worker being cited, and 49 of the tobacco, nicotine products being seized.