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Feds File Charges In Wake Of Synthetic-Drug Death

(CBS) -- Federal authorities are going after the owner of a Chicago-area smoke shop where synthetic drugs were sold.

A local teen was killed after using drugs sold under the name iAroma, a form of synthetic marijuana.

Karen Dobner's son, Max, died after he bought the product at Fox Valley Westfield Shopping Center. He smoked it and later drove a car into a home in North Aurora in 2011.

"When I found they were selling drugs in the mall, I couldn't scream fast enough to the parents," Karen Dobner says.

She has led the charge to have synthetic drug she believes this case sends a message to other tobacco shop owners.

This week, the shop's owner, Ruby Mohsin, and her employee, Mohammad Khan, were criminally charged with selling a controlled substance.

Karen Dobner says manufacturers of the product should be held accountable, too.

 

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