Guns and Drugs Found in Shreveport Vape Store Investigation

SHREVEPORT, LA

The Shreveport Police Department’s Vice Unit has been extremely busy over the past couple of weeks. The unit has been investigating several complaints about juveniles in possession of not only vape products, but also even more dangerous and illegal narcotics related products.

On Wednesday, April 30^th, just after 5PM, agents descended on the vape store at 4311 Youree Drive, where they discovered a huge amount of narcotics, as well as multiple firearms.

Vice Agents arrested Yusef Ghazawneh and charged him with:

• Distribution of Narcotics
• Possession of Controlled Dangerous Substances while in possession of firearms.

The Shreveport Police Department released a statement concerning this case stating:

The Shreveport Police Department remains committed to protecting our youth and will continue to aggressively enforce laws against those who seek to distribute narcotics and illegal substances in our community. "We are committed to doing everything we can to work with our state and federal partners to ensure that illegal operations like this are identified, disrupted, and brought to justice," stated Chief Wayne Smith.

If you have any additional information about this case, or any case involving drugs or firearms involving juveniles, you are urged to contact the Shreveport Police Department at 318-673-7300 or Crime Stoppers at 318-673-7373.

Anyone with information who wants to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 318-673-7373, or log onto www.p3tips.com to submit your tip via the web. For a secure and password-protected mobile app for your smart device, go to the App Store and download the free "P3tips" mobile app. No caller ID, no recorded lines, no tracking cookies, no saved IP address. ANONYMITY IS GUARANTEED!

When using the free downloadable P3 Tips mobile app OR the www.p3tips.com website, both feature very unique integrated Two-Way Dialog capabilities which allow the tipster to come back and provide additional information to their tip at any time. It also provides a secure means for the coordinator to ask the tipster questions pertaining to a provided tip (this is important for the tipster to know because some tips leave detectives requesting further information from the coordinator that only the tipster could provide).

Another reason to use the P3 mobile app or www.p3tips.com website is so that reward information can be given back to the tipster upon request through the same secure and encrypted interface.