A state Supreme Court justice ordered a marijuana dispensary in the Town of Southampton to temporarily shut down Friday for operating without town approvals.

Southampton sought an injunction to halt Charlie Fox cannabis dispensary from operating on County Road 39 in Tuckahoe. The dispensary, which has a state license to sell marijuana, opened Sept. 16 despite a lack of town permits and approvals, Newsday previously reported.

Town code enforcement issued a cease-and-desist order once the business opened, according to court records.

"Since [Charlie Fox] continued to open, we felt that we had to bring the application for the restraining order to have him close until he gets his approvals," Southampton Town Attorney James Burke said in a phone interview Saturday. "We had to treat them lik

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