AURORA | A few local vape shops in Aurora are raising eyebrows, and not just from the clouds of flavored smoke.
While digging into zoning issues surrounding the city’s convenience stores and smoke shops, Aurora officials stumbled across something they say doesn’t add up: a suspiciously high number of “grocery” sales in places that mostly sell vapes, tobacco and rolling papers.
“I did see a smoke shop where they were reporting the majority of their sales to us as groceries,” said Treavor Vaughn, Aurora’s manager of licensing and finance. “Interestingly enough, there’s a big EBT sign on the window. I went in there and they had some sodas and some snacks, but for the most part, it was a smoke shop.”…