ASHEVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW) — A routine alcohol compliance inspection at a West Asheville convenience store led to drug and weapons charges against the store’s owner after investigators said they uncovered evidence of cocaine sales and recovered multiple firearms.
According to the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, special agents were conducting an ABC inspection at the Gas Up convenience store on Haywood Road when they found evidence of cocaine sales and discovered that the owner, 70-year-old Julian Agbala of Asheville, was allegedly in possession of a stolen firearm.
Agents obtained a search warrant for the business and said Agbala assaulted one of the agents when they attempted to detain him before he was taken into custody…