The San Francisco city attorney’s office filed a lawsuit Wednesday against “Corner Store” at 401 Eddy St. at Leavenworth Street, seeking to shut the store down for one year.
In November 2025, an investigation involving the San Francisco Police Department led to the seizure of more than 48 grams of methamphetamine, and 4.68 pounds of marijuana from the store. Investigators also seized a “ghost gun” — a gun without a serial number — and “dozens of illegal tobacco products.”
Though the lawsuit does not describe a specific incident of the sale of illegal drugs, it says “the sale of methamphetamine, marijuana, illegal tobacco, and drug paraphernalia” happened at the store, and the city attorney’s press release today echoed that the store “sold controlled substances and enabled criminal activity in the neighborhood.”
This lawsuit is the latest in a crackdown against what city officials see as problematic convenience stores; last year, the city conducted a series of raids at stores in the Tenderloin, targeting alleged gambling, fencing and the sale of drugs.
More recently, the city moved to expand the curfew imposed on corner stores in the Tenderloin to stores in SoMa.
One allegation in the lawsuit targets the “drug paraphernalia” sold in the store, like glass pipes and “small plastic baggies.” Selling those items “in an area accessible to minors,” according to the lawsuit, is illegal.
The suit also describes an earlier investigation, conducted in April 2024 by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. There, an undercover “investigator purchased a POD Mesh Chilled Blue Razz vape styled flavored tobacco product,” the sale of which is illegal in San Francisco.
The store’s owners had “no permit to sell tobacco at all,” according to a spokesperson for the city attorney’s office. “Not only were they selling tobacco, but they were selling flavored tobacco,” which is not permitted in San Francisco.
The city wrote today that one of Corner Store’s owners also owns SF Discount Market at 238 Leavenworth St., which was searched at least three times in 2024.
That store, the city attorney said following a lawsuit in October of that year, “housed substantial gambling and fencing operations inside.”
They should have just sold meth and weed at 16th and Mission, it happens every day and no one does a thing about it!
Glad they at least did this
My concern is why only a physical place gets closed .
Why cannot the city get control of the drug sales that go on on the city run sidewalks everyday at the same locations for years ?
If there was a “crackhouse” the city would close it down but when on public property managed by the city they are not able to get control.
The harm deaths continue.
At this point , what about focusing on the wellbeing and safety of the residents and taxpayers
The ongoing focus on those on the street is getting old and it is time to arrest and remove those selling and using
It would be much more efficient to put them in a camp away from the city .
There is no reason to allow addicts who are impaired to just “move on”.
“Why cannot the city”
This should be all hands on deck, including federal law enforcement. Instead we got a DC government that focuses on ICE dicking regular people around just for show.
Is this the same place that the old DA busted with all the laptops and stuff from the car break-ins? The one where the cops wouldn’t help him because he was prosecuting another cop for murder? Is this the one where he had to rent a u-haul to bring all the stolen goods into custody because the cops wouldn’t come? Is this the one who’s case got dropped after the recall and the new DA? I mean, I’m not sure…. but I remember the corner and the store with a basement that went into the neighbor’s building. Is it the same one?
Wow is this a Chesa vs the cops story? Pretty bogus.
“The police are a gang” is a parsimonious way to describe this situation and many others in San Francisco, never mind Oakland.
Not that gang members never do anything nice for anyone, they often do. But when it comes to “public safety” vs their compensation, their political influence, and their fiendish addiction to unearned respect… we all have eyes, we can decide for ourselves…
No. That was on Larkin Street. The Quickly boba shop – owned by the wife but used as a warehouse by the husband.
Can someone with better legal knowledge than mine explain why this is not a criminal case?
Civil action is often faster than criminal action. And it doesn’t for close criminal prosecution, so it doesn’t have to be an either/or thing. Sounds lik police did an investigation and presebt d their case to prosecutors and civil authorities. In other words . . . Ask Brooke.
Thanks! ❤️
I can understand that women who are broke are selling illegal cigarettes near 16th & Mission, but they deprive our coffers of direly needed revenue so they need to be stopped.
Have you been to 16th and Mission? It’s kind of ridiculous to refer to a carnival of drugs and stolen property as broke women “selling illegal cigarettes.”