The two owners of Capitol Hemp turned themselves in to police this morning after they were told that a warrant had been issued for their arrest.

Adam Eidinger and Alan Amsterdam, co-owners of the Adams Morgan and Chinatown hemp stores, turned themselves in to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District this morning. Eidinger said they would likely be charged with possession of drug paraphernalia in the wake of two late-October raids on their stores. (Two other Adams Morgan head shops were raided two days later.)

During those raids, seven people were arrested, but the charges against those arrested at the Chinatown location were recently dropped. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of water pipes, vaporizers and other merchandise were also seized during the raids.

As we’re reported, the raids stem from the District’s murky drug paraphernalia laws, which require police to show that a seller intended to sell a pipe or other product for the purpose of illegal drug use. Even those Eidinger and Amsterdam have insisted that they do not sell to anyone who mentions marijuana, a police affidavit justifying the raids said that hemp products, books and pictures of cannabis plants left no doubt that their goods would be used to ingest illegal substances.

We’ll have more as we get it.