A Maryville convenience store shutdown by authorities reopened Monday.

The Finish Line convenience store on north Main St. was shutdown Friday after the Nodaway County Prosecutors office discovered the store did not a have a county liquor license.

Maryville’s City Council approved a city license earlier this summer and the state approved a liquor license but store owners did not renew the county license, Nodaway County Sheriff Darren White said.

Someone walked into the County Clerks office Monday morning to renew the permit.  It was renewed and an employee who answered the phone confirmed the store was back open by Monday afternoon.

It is against the law to operate without a liquor license and charges are expected to be filed.  However, there is some confusion as to who owns the store.

“There are dozens of convenience stores in our area that are owned by a group of Pakistani’s and I got this information from an attorney representing some of these people,” White said.

The store was raided in May after law enforcement had reason to believe the store was selling a banned synthetic drug, known as K-2.  The drug was banned by the Missouri legislature in 2010.  A similar version, K-3, was banned this year.  Law enforcement took some the alleged substance along with documents and computers from the store.

Store employee’s reportedly don’t know who owns the store either, White said.  Every permit posted in the building was issued to some employee of the business.  A man reportedly shows up once a week to pay the employees.