The owner and four employees of Taunton’s Kloudy Visionz vape shop have been charged with illegally selling cannabis products and including minors among their customers.

On Friday, following a weeks-long investigation, Taunton police executed a search warrant at the store and allegedly found 12 ounces of marijuana, several cannabis edibles, THC-infused vape liquid and $5,000, police said.

“Police received reports in recent weeks of high school-aged students buying marijuana products at the store. During the course of the investigation several high school-aged children could be seen going in and out of the store, some of them riding to the store on their bicycles,” Taunton police said in a statement. “Many of the people in the store did not go to the cash register, but went off to the side of the store and still came out with products in hand.”

The store, which has been open for about a year, had already failed to renew its license to sell tobacco products in 2019, police said.

Officers charged owner Jason Correia, 25, of Taunton, with possession with intent to distribute a class D drug and conspiracy to violate the drug law, police said. Correia was not present at the store during the raid and was issued a summons to appear in court.

Four employees -- Victor Burgos, 22; Juan A. Padua, 27; Kody Braese, 23; and Alexander T. Lucia, 22; were arrested at the scene. Burgos and Brause were charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and drug conspiracy. Padua was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine. And Lucia was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana.

In November, the store advertised on social media that it was giving away THC vape cartridges as promotion.

While recreational cannabis sales are legal and regulated in Massachusetts, only nine recreational dispensaries are licensed to operated in the state -- and Kloudy Visionz is not among them. Those shops are required to abide by strict inventory control procedures, and are prohibited from selling cannabis products to anyone under 21 years of age.

“I want to commend the strong police work that went into this investigation and thank those who came forward about what was really going on in the store,” Taunton Police Chief Edward Walsh said in a statement. “While marijuana is now legal in Massachusetts, the legal purchase age is 21 and it must be purchased from a store that is licensed to sell it. What these men were doing was just wrong, especially selling it to children.”