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This was my local comic shop back when I was going to university in Kingston. It was basically the only shop in town after the other two or three went out of business. Prior to opening the comic shop, the owner used to hang out at the local arcade wearing a ridiculous red Michael Jackson jacket (in the nineties). The arcade closed down and he opened his comic shop.
It all makes perfect sense now. Hilarious.
Crown keeps $608,000 - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA
Kingston, ON comic shop owner released from prison on drug charges THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS
When Your Comic Book Dealer Is Also Your Dealer Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
Jorge Carquez | Facebook
It all makes perfect sense now. Hilarious.
Crown keeps $608,000 - The Whig Standard - Ontario, CA
Kingston, ON comic shop owner released from prison on drug charges THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS
When Your Comic Book Dealer Is Also Your Dealer Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors
Jorge Carquez | Facebook
A Kingston comic book vendor, long suspected by the city's Drug Enforcement Unit of dealing in more than X-Men yarns, has been released from jail after six months in pretrial custody.
But the government is keeping more than half a million dollars found in 49-year-old Jorge M. Carquez's home.
Carquez, who was identified in Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice as the owner of Action Packed Comics on Princess Street, pleaded guilty to possessing proceeds of crime — the money — when he was initially arrested in February; two counts of possessing marijuana and THC tablets for the purpose of trafficking; additional counts of illegally possessing morphine and psilocybin (magic mushrooms); and two subsequent violations of drug conditions attached to bail he received after his initial arrest.
While the majority of cash and drugs were seized from Carquez’ home following an initial warrant, a second warrant which involved a drug sniffing dog entering Action Packed Comics, where “the canine’s nose detected a concealed shelving unit on the building’s main floor stocked with eight quarter-ounce bags of marijuana, one two-ounce bag, and 33 one-gram packages of the weed.”
But the government is keeping more than half a million dollars found in 49-year-old Jorge M. Carquez's home.
Carquez, who was identified in Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice as the owner of Action Packed Comics on Princess Street, pleaded guilty to possessing proceeds of crime — the money — when he was initially arrested in February; two counts of possessing marijuana and THC tablets for the purpose of trafficking; additional counts of illegally possessing morphine and psilocybin (magic mushrooms); and two subsequent violations of drug conditions attached to bail he received after his initial arrest.
While the majority of cash and drugs were seized from Carquez’ home following an initial warrant, a second warrant which involved a drug sniffing dog entering Action Packed Comics, where “the canine’s nose detected a concealed shelving unit on the building’s main floor stocked with eight quarter-ounce bags of marijuana, one two-ounce bag, and 33 one-gram packages of the weed.”
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