Convenience Store Owner and Employees Arrested in Tangipahoa Parish

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office reported Friday (June 20, 2025) that TPSO, in collaboration with the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control, has arrested a convenience store owner and his employees after a routine inspection uncovered dozens of illegal products on the shelves along with a larger-scale narcotics operation.

Earlier this week, an ATC agent, conducting a routine inspection, contacted TPSO after discovering a large amount of illegal products on the shelves of the Stop & Shop on Happywoods Road. The items included marijuana cigarettes and gummies suspected to contain THC, Kratom capsules, and bottles of a product known to replicate the effects of opioids.

As the team was leaving this location, deputies noticed two men running out of a different convenience store nearby, Best Stop Quick Mart #1, with their arms full of merchandise. Deputies responded to find more than $16,000 in cash as well as numerous THC vape pens, chewables, Hookah Lit vapes, Kratom capsules, and assorted other illegal substances in their vehicle. The investigation revealed the men were the store owner and his employee who were trying to hide the illegal products assuming the police activity they saw down the street came into this business. Both businesses are owned by Khuller. A final search at Khuller’s Ponchatoula-area home turned up more than $56,000.

Sunny Mehra, age 20, has been booked with two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and THC, along with one count each of Conspiracy to Distribute a Schedule I Controlled Dangerous Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Hallucinogenic Compound.

Paras Khullar, age 20, and Sat Pal, age 47, were booked on the same charges, but both received an additional charge of Obstruction of Justice.

***All persons are innocent until proven guilty***

Sheriff Gerald Sticker wants to thank the ATC for their partnership developing and closing this case.