Commonwealth v. $603.45 Cash

OPINION BY

President Judge MARY HANNAH LEAVITT.

Richard Russell and One Step Above, LLC, a tobacco shop, appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of York County (trial court) issued on the Commonwealth’s petition for forfeiture of the shop’s entire inventory of 5,000 items. The trial court granted the petition with respect to tobacco accessories it concluded were drug paraphernalia but denied the petition for the remaining inventory, which ranged from store shelving and computers to cash. The appellants contend that the trial court erred in holding-that the forfeited tobacco accessories,…