According to an ABC7 New York report, a Brooklyn businessman named Ronen Levy is planning to sue the NYPD for arresting him and confiscating what they said was 106 pounds of marijuana.
Charges against the man were later dropped as it turned out the marijuana was hemp for the man’s CBD business called Green Angel CBD.
The product was returned to Ronen Levy and his brother, who was arrested by the NYPD after police seized the shipment.
The NYPD posted the news of taking the FedEx shipment on both Twitter and Facebook and congratulated their officers of the 75th Precinct for their “relentless effort” to keep “106 pounds of marijuana off city streets.”
The brothers insisted it was $30,000 worth of hemp, which is legal, for their CBD business.
“This proves it’s hemp,” said Ronen Levy, owner of Green Angel CBD. “100 percent hemp. It’s a letter from the Department of Agriculture.”
NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan had said in November that the product was “currently at the lab at this point to make a final determination, was it hemp. The individual had no bill of lading justifying his delivery. so this is all part of an investigation.”
“It’s packed like this and when law enforcement opens the box they should see everything,” said Ronen Levy. “One it’s a notice to law enforcement, it’s pretty obvious. It tells you, it recites the farm bill that passed right, which is in 2018 the farm bill. The whole nine yards. Our labs are in there right. There’s licenses from the Department of Agriculture. Two licenses.”
The shipment came from Fox Holle Farms in New Haven, Vermont.
“Just please be honest,” he said. “We’re human. I’m a human being. My brother is a human being. Like why would they do this for?”
Levy says after two months his product is now likely damaged and him and his brother are now suing the NYPD for $10 million for emotional and financial stress, false arrest, and a sullied reputation.
