NEW CUMBERLAND — The second defendant in a felony case related to the alleged sales of high-THC products at a Newell store has another court date.

Abdulrashid Alhawshabi, who owns Phillies Quick Stop, located at 106 Washington St., is scheduled to appear at 9:40 a.m. Nov. 14 before Magistrate Ralph Fletcher on two counts of possession of a Schedule I controlled substance or II with intent to deliver. .

He was held on a $40,000 property bond/surety bond.

Co-defendant Hamdan Alhawshabi, who ran the store, accepted a plea deal last week to a lesser charge that resulted in a $100 fine, court costs, a suspended prison sentence and probation unsupervised for a year.

The store manager also had to agree to a ban on selling any CBD and THC products and had to promise to check IDs to make sure customers buying tobacco, lottery tickets and alcoholic beverages have legal permission to do so in the state of West Virginia. before selling them.