NYC Mayor Adams Warns Illicit Cannabis Operators ‘We Have A Lock With Your Name On It’
New York City Mayor Eric Adams ordered the city’s police to shut down 20 stores on Tuesday, the first day of new efforts to dismantle illicit cannabis operations in the Big Apple.
“The illegal shops … have become a magnet for crime, they have become a magnet for quality of life issues that we have faced in this city (…) Our message is clear: We want to close them down,” said Adams in a press conference that included a live demonstration of a raid on a Lower Manhattan shop. “We have a lock with your name on it,” he warned the hundreds of offending shop owners throughout New York City’s five boroughs.
Sheriff Anthony Miranda, overseeing the raid via a live feed with intermittent connectivity issues, targeted the New City Smoke Shop on Church St., just steps away from City Hall. According to Miranda, the store was found selling unlicensed cannabis, cigarettes and even mushrooms with packaging designed to appeal to younger demographics. “They …