After fatal car crash, Montgomery County shop owner charged with selling fake pot

Malloy was with his brother and the victims when they purchased the synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, at the Achi Store on High Street, police said. When an undercover cop went in the day after the fatal crash and asked to buy two packets of the drug, the clerk pulled it from a hidden location under the counter, according to prosecutors. When authorities later raided the store, they reported finding 30 vials of K2, more than 30 crack pipes, 13 pipes used for smoking marijuana and a handgun.

K2 was banned in Pennsylvania last August, just two months after a young man took the drug and died after jumping off a four-story garage in Abington Township, prosecutors said.

Malloy told police he smoked the "Deadman" variety of K2 just minutes before the crash, and it made his heart beat fast, blurred his vision, caused a "sense of panic" and made him feel as if he was having an asthma attack, according to a news release from the D.A.'s office.

Still, after the crash Malloy and his brother had the wherewithal to pull Witt, Crawford and a third passenger from the vehicle before they left them for dead and fled on foot, police said.

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