COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — Colonial Heights and Virginia State Police executed search warrants at three vape shops Friday morning, seizing illegal gambling machines and narcotics.
The raids, which occurred simultaneously, drew attention from nearby workers and shoppers.
“I look out the door and there are like two vans, four or five police cars, a police officer with a battering ram and telling people to get on the ground,” Melodie Dittman, who works in Pickwick Shopping Center near where two of the raids occurred, said…