San Francisco officials have shut down or sued nine Tenderloin convenience stores accused of housing illegal gambling and drug activity, as city leaders consider expanding a late-night retail curfew aimed at disrupting open-air drug markets, city officials announced.<\/p>\n
City Attorney David Chiu said the stores attracted criminal activity and, in some cases, sold illegal drugs.<\/p>\n
The ordinance, passed in July 2024 as a two-year pilot, bars certain retail stores in parts of the Tenderloin from operating between midnight and 5 a.m. Violators face fines of up to $1,000, and repeat offenders can be sued.<\/p>\n
San Francisco police partnered in the enforcement actions, which included search warrants that uncovered gambling machines, drugs, weapons, stolen merchandise and large amounts of cash, according to city officials.<\/p>\n
The City Attorney\u2019s Office has filed litigation against SF Discount Market at 238 Leavenworth St.; EZ Dollar Discount Store at 335 Jones St.; Ed\u2019s Market at 153 Turk St.; Family Corner Discounts at 401 Ellis St.; US Smoke Shop at 415 Ellis St.; and TL Market and Deli at 200 Leavenworth St.<\/p>\n
IG Mini Mart at 512 Ellis St., Fullmoon Gift & More Inc. at 258 Taylor St., and Sing Sing Cafe at 309 Hyde St. were also evicted.<\/p>\n
The update comes as the Board of Supervisors considers legislation to extend the ordinance by 18 months and expand it to parts of the South of Market neighborhood.<\/p>\n
The proposal has advanced out of committee and is expected to go before the full board in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco officials have shut down or sued nine Tenderloin convenience stores accused of housing illegal gambling and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[17358,723,14421,79863,93,4306,72272,734,1071,79864,79865,8763,1492,79866,101,34860,103,102,104,106,105,13528],"class_list":["post-165495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-city-attorney","tag-crime","tag-david-chiu","tag-drug-activity","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-law-enforcement","tag-local-government","tag-neighborhood-safety","tag-open-air-drug-markets","tag-policing","tag-public-safety","tag-retail-curfew","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-tenderloin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}