These illegal weed bakeries won’t be making any more dough!
The city this week shuttered a trio of Sweetooth pot bake shops whose co-owner previously boasted to The Post that he was taking advantage of lax laws in “liberal” New York City.
On Monday, a multi-agency task force led by the city Sheriff’s office raided the Sweetooth at 1662 First Avenue on the Upper East Side.
Three days later the spots on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village and East 10th Street in the East Village were shuttered, officials said.
During Monday’s bust, the raiders seized 282 THC vapes, 487 pre-rolls, 825 packages of THC edibles, and “various” cannabis-infused baked goods and drinks, the mayor’s office said.
An unidentified owner was arrested and charged with possession of cannabis, a misdemeanor, said the mayoral spokesperson Kayla Mamelak.
In Thursday’s busts, the “operators” of the Village locales were arrested and charged with possession of cannabis, she said.
“Mayor Adams has been clear: We will not let the economic opportunities that legal cannabis offers be taken for a ride by unlicensed establishments,” Mamelak told The Post.
“No illegal business operation will be tolerated — especially those that are threatening the health and safety of our communities — and we will not hesitate to take all necessary enforcement action against any other storefronts behaving in a similar manner.”
The East Village Sweetooth — the first “infused” pot bake shop in the city — opened in October.
“If it wasn’t legal we’d be in handcuffs, no?” Sweetooth “co-owner” Vincent Gasparre told The Post two weeks ago.
Since November, the interagency task force has conducted more than 260 inspections of shops illegally selling products, issued nearly 586 violations resulting in nearly $6 million in fines, and seized more than $14 million in illicit products, Mamelak said.