A Philadelphia man is accused of using Instagram to advertise and sell THC-laced cereal snacks directly to kids as young as 11 throughout Montgomery County. ABaskerville10 will have more details on the story tonight on NBC10 News at 11:
Rice also allegedly solicited some of the children to help him sell the edibles and even asked buyers to repost and tag his Instagram sales post advertising his products in exchange for a discount.
Rice was arrested in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Officials said they also recovered a ghost gun, materials Rice used to make the edibles, around 40 individually packaged homemade edibles and around 10 bags of marijuana. “This defendant was targeting children as young as 11 years old to sell his drugs to, imbedding drugs in cereals and snack products that appeal to children. He then sold them where children are—on social media, specifically Instagram, where he would show the product as well as provide step-by-step instructions for how the kids could order the edibles and have them delivered,” Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.
Rice was arraigned and remanded to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility after failing to post bail that was set at $95,000 cash. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on June 27.