Court Date Postponed for Family Accused of Selling Drugs Out of Shelby Gas Station
Five family members are facing felony charges stemming from allegations that they sold synthetic marijuana and other drugs from the Citgo Gas Station, now Express Gas, and Woodstock Smoke Shop on Van Dyke in Shelby Township.
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The case involving five family members accused of selling K2 and other drugs out of a Shelby Township gas station and smoke shop has been postponed until March for purposes of discovery.
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.
The family was scheduled for their preliminary exam Thursday before Judge Douglas P. Shepherd in 41-A District Court. Having previously waived their 14-day right to a preliminary examination, Shepherd approved defense attorney Ron Marsh's request to adjourn the exam to allow additional time for case information to be obtained.
The owner of the gas station, Faize Dabish, 63, of West Bloomfield; her sons, David Dabish, 39; Derick Dabish, 31, and Dabish Dabish, 35, of West Bloomfield and Sterling Heights, respectively; and grandsons Audrick Dabish, 18, and Dedrick Dabish, 17, both of Sterling Heights, were arraigned in December 2012 on multiple felony charges, including delivering and manufacturing controlled substances, maintaining a drug house and possession of a controlled substance.
Officers confiscated large quantities of the synthetic drug K2, also known as Spice, from the family's gas station and smoke shop in October. More of the drug was found in a Sterling Heights storage unit following a search of the family's West Bloomfield and Sterling Heights homes.
Investigators said the suspects had been distributing synthetic marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, hydrocodone and marijuana out of their stores for several months.
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David Weaver
12:27 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Delay? For what? They are fortunate to live in a country that allows due process. I am disappointed in this delay but have faith the legal system will soon find them guilty and then deport them.
macombresident
12:36 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Deport the whole family
Melissa
1:49 pm on Saturday, February 2, 2013
Oh Great they ARE citizens!!! So lock them ALL up!!! This family has criminal records that go back for years! Its all available for everyone to see on the Macomb and Oakland County Circuit Court websites. Fabize Sure raised a family full of criminals. And thatnks to Dedricks comments on the other story posted here on Patch the community is fired up more now than ever!!!! We are not backing down and are demanding nothing more than a full jury trial! Notthing but pure drug dealing TRASH!!!!!!
timothy matty
1:15 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Melissa shut up you sound stupid child, what's wrong with you?!?
Melissa
9:01 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
Oh look its the Dabish Drug Dealers Employee ... Another drug dealer ! We are watching you too! Tell you Friend Dedrick he deleted his comments too late they have all been copied and along with yours are being sent t the district attorney. And you will all be seeing a loit more of us! The only place the Dabish Family is going is to LOCK UP!!!!
Sarah Franklin
11:00 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
The whole lot of these people are from the other side of the tracks. Exchanging uneducated insults with them simply brings us down to their sub-human level and accomplishes nothing.
As a community we need to rally against these hooligans and demand our local prosecutor to not accept any reduced pleas. Nothing less than maximum incarceration is acceptable. Lets make sure as many of us as possible contact the Court and the Prosecutor about this.. Then, lets have a peaceful rally at their next rescheduled hearing supported by broadcast media coverage to get this message throughout Southeast Michigan. This is the best way in my opinion for the Community to assure maximum criminal penalties get levied against this family (all assuming they are found guilty of course)
Jenny Whalen
12:16 am on Monday, February 4, 2013
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lisalirato
3:55 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
we are all natural american born working paying taxes not on food stamps stelling from our taxpayers were not drug dealers do you know the meainning of syntic drug not suposed to be used for conseption idits out there there parents should be watching them instied of sleeping around like little horrirs or drinking alchol go stop the real drug dealers or you aint shit get a life and work hard for your money you low life taking from the state
carol jeffers
11:01 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
They will get a fine,which money talks. and they have the money to pay there way out of this.What will make it harder because it is'nt the real stuff! if it was they would be behind bars! Just kick them out of macomb and tell them to stay on there side of the tracks and let the county where they live deal with them!
Shut down Express Gas & Woodstock
10:48 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
They are going to receive justice. They may believe they are above the law however we will not go away. The delays are so the media attention will die off so their legal team can try and plea the charges. This community will not allow a plea of any sort. In time this family will pay for their crimes. I don't believe that West Bloomfield would allow this trash to operate a business In their community selling drugs legal/illegal.
I urge every citizen of the Tri County area to keep the pressure on Eric Smith and the new judge that will be hearing the case. We cannot allow this family to keep destroying the families in our community. It is obvious that the Grandmother has no pride or respect for her own family. The grandmother is a merchant of death along with her sons and grandsons. They know the dangers associated with synthetic drugs legal and illegal and they continue to sell them.
Maybe the drug dealing grandma can spend some time behind bars. A national publication will be featuring this case and discuss the criminal past of each member. Just before it is released on the national level I will share it with you.
Please do your part contact the Macomb County prosecutor and tell them that you don't support a plea and that this family must serve time in addition to the fines. Also the community must stop supporting their operations.