Hemp dealer charged with 2 marijuana felonies in Hancock County
Adam King, who runs the Dapper Canna hemp dispensary in Fountain Square, faces two felony counts of dealing marijuana in Hancock County after court records said hundreds of marijuana plants were seized from a farm. He spent nearly a week in jail before release on bond pending trial and says he was growing legal hemp under an Indiana Seed Commissioner licence.
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Felony drug charges have been filed in Hancock County against a local hemp
dealer who runs a dispensary in Fountain Square.[1][2][3][4]The dealer was identified
as Adam King, who faces two felony counts of dealing marijuana.[1][3][5]King spoke
out against the charges a day after he was released from jail.[1][3]He spent
nearly a week behind bars before being released on bond pending trial after an
initial hearing on Wednesday.[1][3][5]
The investigation began when Indiana State Excise Police received a complaint
and started conducting undercover buys at the Dapper Canna dispensary on
Virginia Avenue last year.[1][3][5]Surveillance footage, recorded in late October,
shows numerous Hancock County SWAT officers, State Excise Police and the Metro
Drug Task Force raiding a farm in Hancock County.[1][3][5]Court records claim
hundreds of marijuana plants were seized in the raid.[1][3][5]King claims police
also raided his shop and cleared out his shelves.[1][3]Investigators claim
samples taken from some of the undercover buys at the store included products
with more THC than is legal, but King has not been charged with any crimes in
Marion County.[1][3][5]
King, who also runs the hemp dispensary in Fountain Square, showed us a license
from the Indiana Seed Commissioner that allows him to legally grow and sell
hemp.[1][3]King said the allegations are inherently untrue.[1][3]While
marijuana, both medical and recreational, remains illegal in Indiana,
non-intoxicating hemp is not against the law.[1][3]King plans to file a civil
lawsuit against the various law enforcement agencies involved in the raids on
his business.[1][3]
Fox 59fox59.comSmoke shop raid leads to felony charges against a local hemp dealer
WKRClocal12.comIndiana hemp dealer says he's filing lawsuit after police raid shop, clean out his shelves
Open questions the AI reported
No precise plant number was published beyond hundreds of marijuana plants, so no plants_destroyed figure is recorded.
No cannabis weight, area, value or THC-test result was published for the farm plants or the shop products, so no kilogram or value figure is recorded.
The article gives no exact date for the late-October farm raid or the Wednesday initial hearing; 5 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
Only one accessible outlet account was found after searching for the names, shop and county; no agency statement or second outlet account was opened.
The shop products said to exceed legal THC limits are described without weights or test values, and no Marion County charge was filed, so they are not counted as a separate seizure.
No court outcome beyond release on bond pending trial was reported.
The page image web-pic-1.jpg carries no caption establishing that it shows this raid or seizure, so no photo entry is listed.
King disputes the marijuana allegation, saying he grew legal hemp under an Indiana Seed Commissioner licence; the report records the authorities' allegation as stated.
WIBC credits the story to FOX 59, so it is a republication of the account already cited rather than independent confirmation.
WIBC gives no separate date for the late-October farm raid or the Wednesday initial hearing.
The WIBC page's copyright year appears as 2025 in its footer while the stated publication date is 5 November 2026; the publication date is used.
The submitted Fox 59 page is its video-center listing (video 12342240, aired 5 November 2026) and carries only the one-sentence description of the case; the station's full written article could not be opened because it returned an access error, so its text is corroborated through the WIBC and WKRC accounts opened here.
The station's YouTube upload of the report, linked by WKRC, returned no openable content, so no video entry with a direct media address was added.
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