Man set to prison for ‘bath salts’ conviction

Police received tips that “hallucinogenic” substances were being sold out of the Marathon gas station across from the fairgrounds in Lebanon, and Shalash and five others were indicted a year ago. Police obtained a search warrant for the gas station on Ohio 48 and found 100 containers of K2/Spice in a storeroom and more of the drug and bath salts under the counter.

The owner of the station, Hamza Shalash, 22, also of Cincinnati and a relative of Haitham, was sentence to 11 years in prison in May following a jury trial. Three others involved in the case either had their case dropped or received community control.