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Considering and adopting adverse licensing action against the Cigarette/Tobacco license held by Dollar Plus Inc., d/b/a Dollar Plus at 560 University Avenue West. (Public hearing continued from September 5)
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WHEREAS, Dollar Plus Inc., d/b/a Dollar Plus for the premises located at 560 University Avenue West (License ID #20080000589) (hereinafter “Licensee”), received a Notice of Intent To Revoke License dated April 17, 2018 (hereinafter “Notice”); and
WHEREAS, on November 17, 2016, Saint Paul Police sent an undercover officer into Dollar Plus to attempt to buy synthetic marijuana in an attempt to investigate complaints from members of the community that the licensee was selling synthetic marijuana that caused members of the community to overdose and become ill and the licensee told the undercover officer “that’s the other dude” and to check back in the morning; and
WHEREAS, the licensee further told the undercover officer that the other individual “doesn’t even know that I know. I didn’t even know that he does that I heard from a customer. That’s his own privacy”; and
WHEREAS, Saint Paul Police used a Confidential Reliable Informant (CRI) to purchase a substance later identified by a forensic scientist from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (“BCA”) as synthetic marijuana on September 20, 2017, September 25, 2017, and October 3, 2017; and
WHEREAS, following the controlled buys Saint Paul Police obtained a search warrant which was executed on November 21, 2017; and
WHEREAS, during the execution of the search warrant, Saint Paul Police found, recovered and photographed a 9MM loaded and cocked hand gun behind the clerk’s counter, numerous rounds (37 boxes) of ammunition for the handgun, a high powered long-gun or AK-47, “magazines” or ammunition for the AK-47, a large knife and a bullet proof vest; and
WHEREAS, due to the serious nature of the illegal activity that the licensee allowed at the licensed premises and the danger that t...
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