Community service: Man sentenced for mixing THC into cafe ice cream
By Adam Bartow
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CONCORD, New Hampshire (WMTW) — A Maine man accused of mixing THC into ice cream at his shop in Newmarket, New Hampshire has been sentenced to probation and community service.
Marc Flores, 45, pleaded guilty in federal court over the summer to tampering with a consumer product.
Several people got sick after eating the ice cream in March 2023.
Investigators said that in 2022, Flores mixed THC into a batch of his shop’s coffee-Oreo ice cream. A catering company took over the shop that same year and unknowingly served the tampered batch to customers a few months later.
That ice cream was then sold at Roots Local Cafe. Over the course of two days in mid-March 2023, several people reported extremely high heart rates, severe dizziness, and weakness. One person was a young child, and another patient was hospitalized.
Tuesday, a federal judge in Concord, New Hampshire, sentenced Flore to two years of probation and 20 hours of community service. He also has to pay an $11,000 fine.
Flores spoke in court, saying he’s very sorry for the harm he caused.
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