NEW CUMBERLAND — A month after his co-defendant took a plea to a lesser charge, a status hearing for the owner of a Newell convenience store has, once again, been rescheduled.

This is the seventh time that Abdulrashid Alhawshabi, of Weirton, has had his hearing continued, according to the online magistrate court case docket. The new court date set before Magistrate Ralph Fletcher is at 9:20 a.m., Dec. 5.

Alhawshabi is charged with two counts of felony possession or intent to deliver a Schedule I or II narcotic.

Messages left to the Hancock County prosecutor and sheriff’s offices were not returned Thursday.

Last month, Phillies Quick Stop manager and co-defendant, Hamdan Alhawshabi, entered a plea to a misdemeanor charge of one count of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription. He also promised Fletcher that not only would he not sell CBD (cannabidiol) or THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol, which is the psychoactive ingredient in the cannibis plant) products, but would check IDs of potential customers buying tobacco, lottery tickets and alcoholic beverages to confirm that they meet the West Virginia legal age before selling to the customers.

As a result, Hamdan Alhawshabi was fined $100 plus costs, received a suspended six-month jail sentence and was put on unsupervised probation for one year.

Members of the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force, along with Hancock County deputies, executed a search warrant last spring at Phillies as part of an investigation into alleged illegal sales of products to persons under age 21 and that exceed the legal limit of 0.3% THC within the state of West Virginia.