An odd development in Monday morning’s 3 am raid of an alleged illegal nightclub suspected of hosting drugs and sex crimes, as one of those arrested had been wanted by the feds for gunpoint robberies of iPhone shipments in Oregon.
There were plenty of questions when the SFPD raided a suspected illegal underground nightclub at Noriega Street and 32nd Avenue at 3 am this past Monday morning. Police merely said that the raid was “part of a sex crimes investigation tied to an alleged underground club at the location,” and they found “multiple firearms” and “various suspected narcotics” during the raid.
One of those questions was what Noriega Street storefront address was the actual scene of the raid, because SFPD wasn’t saying. SFGate reported Monday that “windows of the storefront at 2543 Noriega St had been covered with tarp and broken glass was scattered on the sidewalk.” That address was most recently home to the Chinese restaurant Xian Bistro, and before that was Sushi Genki, and in the above 2021 Google Street View photo, was called Underground Grill Kings.
KTVU confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the raid was in fact at that 2543 Noriega Street location. But that KTVU report also has the surprising news that one of the people arrested was wanted by the FBI for stealing cases of iPhones in Oregon. That would be 31-year-old Cankun He, who the Department of Justice says is “believed to be residing in the Bay Area.”…