2 charged with selling fake marijuana in NH, Maine

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - Two men have been charged with selling a form of synthetic marijuana in New Hampshire and Maine.

Kyle Hurley and Robert Costello are being held without bail following their arrest March 28 after a three-month investigation. It wasn’t immediately known if they had lawyers.

The Portsmouth Herald reports (https://bit.ly/1gHahGh) the investigation took undercover agents to Portsmouth, Hampton, Seabrook and Kittery, Maine. It started with the purchase of synthetic marijuana from a Londonderry store on Dec. 31.

Costello allegedly told police he worked with someone who had a barn in Epping, where that person mixes the drug marijuana in cement mixers and then spreads it on plastic sheets. The product is then sprayed with synthetics.

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Information from: Portsmouth Herald, https://www.seacoastonline.com