Allen, Texas smoke shop, hemp leaders sue city [Video]

ALLEN, Texas — Hemp distributors in a North Texas city are taking legal action after they say their businesses were raided earlier this year.

On Thursday, the Hemp Industry Leaders of Texas, their head lawyer David Sergi and business owner Sabihe Kahn, filed a lawsuit against Allen, Texas, its police department and several others for allegedly infringing upon the group’s legal rights.

The lawsuit claims the city, police, Allen police chief Steve Dye, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner all violated Kahn’s Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by searching his shop without valid reasoning.

In late August, the suit claims 70-year-old Kahn’s hemp shop, called Allen Smoke & Vape, was raided by police, who procured a search warrant with help from the DEA. Other HILT businesses in the Dallas-Fort …