13-Year-Old Tells Police He 'Tripped Out' on Substance Mother Gave Him to Smoke

A Clinton Township mother accused of providing smoking material to her 13-year-old son told police she purchased the substance at the Shelby Township gas station currently at the center of an ongoing criminal case.

The 30-year-old woman described the substance as an odor-eating material sold at Express Gas, one of two businesses owned by the Dabish family. She denied giving it to her son to smoke.

Five members of the Dabish family—a mother, two sons and two grandsons— were arrested in October 2012 after Shelby Township police and federal agents raided the former Citgo Gas Station, now Express Gas, and Woodstock Smoke Shop on Van Dyke at 21 Mile Road.

During the raid, officers confiscated large quantities of the synthetic drug K2, also known as Spice. Investigators also reported the suspects had been distributing synthetic marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, hydrocodone and marijuana out of their stores for several months.

Shelby Township Police Chief Roland Woelkers told Patch Friday that despite the ongoing criminal case, his department is still receiving complaints of drug activity at the gas station.

“It’s an open investigation,” Woelkers said. “We’re aware of what is going on there. We’ve looked at several items and had them tested, but they’re not illegal under the law as of yet.”

The substance purchased by the Clinton Township woman, described in the police report as a ½-by-1 inch piece of material stored in a baggie and known as “sheets,” is not believed to be illegal. However, Clinton Township police have been in contact with both Shelby Township police and child protective services.

Police were called to a home in the 15000 block of Nadina Lane shortly before 5 p.m. Feb. 12 for a report of a 13-year-old boy believed to have overdosed on some unknown drug.

A neighbor told police she thought the boy was acting strangely and took him to a relative’s home, as his mother wasn’t around at the time. The boy was transported to a nearby hospital where he told police he had smoked a drug called “sheets,” according to the police report.

The boy told police his mother had shown him how to smoke the material as a pain reliever after he had experienced a bad nosebleed. He said he “tripped out” on the substance and later smoked it with his mother a second time. He told police he found more of the substance on Feb. 12 and passed out after smoking it, saying his “trip was bad,” according to the police report.

The mother denied any knowledge of her son smoking the substance, but later told police she believed he was referring to an odor-eating material she had purchased at Express Gas. Police referred the case to child protective services.

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