Long Island Teen Arrested Over THC Gummies Hospitalizations

Authorities arrested 18-year-old Jahsheem Jones of Mastic Beach after investigators say he sold THC-laced gummies to a William Paca Middle School student in May, who then shared them with classmates. Multiple students — roughly a dozen ages 13–14 — became sick after ingesting the gummies at school and were taken to a local hospital; officials said none suffered long-term harmful effects. Suffolk County police charged Jones with endangering the welfare of a child, issued him a desk appearance ticket and set a future court date in the First District Court in Central Islip. Police executed the arrest at Jones’s Robinwood Drive home following their probe. The episode follows a March incident in the William Floyd School District in which 11 students were hospitalized after eating similar gummies and 22-year-old Wilmer Castillo-Garcia was arrested.