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Suburban store owner accused of selling fake urine

By Cumulus Media Feb 9, 2016 | 10:24 AM

Taher Yousef / Cook County Sherrif's Office — Taher Yousef / Cook County Sherrif’s Office

By John Dempsey, WLS-AM news

(CRESTWOOD) A suburban Chicago merchant is under arrest for allegedly selling fake urine.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says 56-year old Taher Yousef, who owns the Tobacco Land Plus store in the 13400 block of Cicero Avenue in Crestwood, sold a synthetic urine kit with a heating element, to an undercover Sheriff’s Police Officer.

Dart says the kits are used to defraud drug and alcohol tests.

Yousef was charged with a manufacture/sell/give a synthetic or human substance with the intent of using the product to a defraud drug or alcohol screening test, which is a class 4 felony.

@2016 WLS News