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Eleni Balakrishnan
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Police and Courts Reporter, Mission Local
San Francisco
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By Eleni Balakrishnan Verified| Mission Local Verified In three lawsuits, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is seeking to shutter multiple Tenderloin businesses for allegedly operating as illegal gambling dens, and selling drugs while fronting as discount stores or smoke shops. “The businesses housed substantial illegal gambling operations, facilitated criminal and drug activity in the neighborhood, and, in some cases, illegally sold controlled substances,” read a statement from the City Attorney’s Office today.
By Eleni Balakrishnan Verified| Mission Local Verified When Theris Coats failed to make it from his San Francisco hospital bed to a sobering center in February, and wound up dead in county jail a few weeks later, his father, like any parent, wanted someone to blame. Coats, or “TC,” was in the throes of addiction and in a wheelchair with an amputated leg.
By Eleni Balakrishnan Verified| Mission Local Verified In three lawsuits, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is seeking to shutter multiple Tenderloin businesses for allegedly operating as illegal gambling dens, and selling drugs while fronting as discount stores or smoke shops. “The businesses housed substantial illegal gambling operations, facilitated criminal and drug activity in the neighborhood, and, in some cases, illegally sold controlled substances,” read a statement from the City Attorney’s Office today.
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Mission Local
Since 2008, Mission Local has been in San Francisco's Mission District producing high-impact journalism while training the next generation of reporters who reflect the diversity of the city. Originally a project of UC Berkeley's Journalism School, we struck out on our own in 2014.
San Francisco, United States
+1 415-643-9191
Founded: 2008