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Recommendation that City Council adopt the Hearing Officer's recommendations in full; and instruct staff to revoke Business License Permit Nos. BU20134560 and BU20447180 issued to ACCO Enterprises, dba Gameplay. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
Attached please find a copy of the Report, Findings and Recommendations of Hearing Officer Clive S. Martin regarding ACCO Enterprises, Inc., d.b.a. Gameplay, located at 6543 E. Spring Street, Long Beach, California 90808. This matter was placed on the City Council Agenda for August 23, 2005, to review the attached Hearing Officer Report regarding revocation of business license numbers BU20134560 and BU20447180. The licenses were issued during August 2001 and October 2005 respectively. An administrative hearing commenced April 6, 2005, and concluded on June
21, 2005, following a lengthy police investigation regarding the illegal purchase and sale of stolen merchandise by Gameplay. During the administrative proceedings, evidence was presented that Gameplay repeatedly purchased stolen merchandise, and then sold this merchandise for profit at 6543 E. Spring Street. Evidence was presented that Gameplay often provided an individual, known to them only by the alias Pancho, with lists of new release DVDs, games, and systems desired by Gameplay. Pancho would in turn steal the listed items and return to 6543 E. Spring Street with bags or boxes of stolen merchandise. There, Pancho was instructed to place the stolen merchandise behind the front store counter where it was picked up and taken into the back of the store to be inventoried. Gameplay then paid Pancho in cash. Such a transaction was captured on video tape and showed Pancho enter 6543 E. Spring Street, walk up to the front counter where he was given a “list” by one of Gameplay’s owners, after which Pancho left the store. Only minutes later Pancho appeared on a Target surveillance tape breaking into that store, and shortly thereafter, leaving with an entire shopping cart fille...
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