Long Island candy man busted after middle-schoolers end up hospitalized off weed gummies: cops

A Long Island teen sold a stash of cannabis gummies to a local middle-school student — who then doled them out to his buddies and made the kids sick enough to be hospitalized, cops said Tuesday.Jahsheem Jones, 18, of Mastic Beach peddled the gummies to a student at William Paca Middle School in May, with the youngster then sharing them with his pals and landing “multiple” kids in the hospital, Suffolk County Police said in a press release.In all, about a dozen students, ages 13 and 14, were sickened by the THC-laced gummies at the school, which is part of the William Floyd School District, police said.The incident drew massive amounts of both police and local EMTs to the school at the time, according to a statement from the William Floyd School District.Suffolk cops launched an investigation, which led to Jones’ home on Robinwood Drive.He was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and release on a desk appearance ticket and is due to return to First District Court in Islip at a future date, police said....