Roseville police seized K2 or Spice from a business Tuesday, just one day after Macomb County banned the substance known as synthetic marijuana or synthetic cannabinoids.
Police arrested the store owner and employee after finding the substance along with marijuana and an illegally possessed firearm, according to a news release.
Police said they received several complaints about Smokers Alley selling synthetic marijuana. Officers went to check the business at 27738 Gratiot and found hundreds of packages of synthetic marijuana products with different brand names, Police Chief James Berlin said.
The reason we actually took them into custody last night was due to the gun and marijuana, Berlin said.
Some of the products were in plain view, but much of it was hidden, he said.
It looks like they were trying to keep it down behind the counter, Berlin said. They were selling it when asked.
Police have been checking local businesses for synthetic marijuana after Macomb County passed an emergency order Monday prohibiting people from selling the products.
Roseville officers seized the products and plan to send a sample to the Michigan State Police Crime Lab for testing. Police will be seeking charges for marijuana and gun possession, as well as the K2, Berlin said.
The two men arrested were released from custody pending charges from the Macomb County Prosecutors Office, Berlin said.
The marijuana and the guns are no problem, Berlin said. But the K2, were not exactly sure on how the prosecution is going to move forward.
Roseville police went to about eight businesses to check for compliance and found all the others were in compliance.
The Platters founder Herb Reed dies at 83 - BBC News
Herb Reed, the last surviving founding member of the US vocal group The Platters, has died in Boston aged 83.
The singer's manager said he died after a period of declining health that included chronic heart disease.
Founded by Reed in 1953, the group had hits with songs including Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Only You and The Great Pretender.
Following the replacement of original band members, he was the only singer to appear on all 400 recordings.
Reed continued touring, performing up to 200 shows per year, until last year.
Formed as harmonising street singers in Los Angeles, The Platters were the most popular black singing group of their time.
Reed is credited with coming up with the group's name - inspired by disc jockeys who referred to their records as "platters".
The original line-up included Reed, female vocalist Zola Taylor, David Lynch, Tony Williams and Paul Robi, who went on to have four number one hits in the US between 1955 and 1958.
Reed credited his survival in the music industry to the poverty he experienced as a child.
Growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, he said in his biography he was careful with money because he did not want to assume the group's success would continue.
The Platters continued to record until the late 1960s and tour in various incarnations, with more than 100 different members, until the present day.
The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
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