The Daily Progress reports that the owner of Sexshuns, a downtown mall clothing and shoe store, has been arrested by the Feds. Reynold George Samuels Jr, is charged with marijuana distribution, drug conspiracy, felony copyright infringement and firearms charges. Additionally, he was charged with:
50+ grams of crack cocaine
500 grams of powder cocaine
220 pounds of marijuana
That’s a lot of drugs!
Now, the question is, would you have thought?
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Tagged as: arrests, Charlottesville, Crime, Downtown Mall, drugs, FBI
wow that guy is completely fucked.
Hate to admit it, but I’m not a regular patron of this particular downtown establishment. Thor, good morning! I was reading the same article and was about to write about it but checked the dash and you were on it, way to go! What got me interested was the “undisclosed location” where he’s being held. Do we have those? I’m not irreverent enough to make a p.o.w. allusion right there, but if I were, it would go here. But I will add that the Bush administration sucks on that one. Sorry to be political. Back to drugs. Lots of drugs!
i know, crazy! what’s everybody going to do this weekend now that all the fluff got yanked off the streets?
i’m kidding, i know nobody does drugs. let’s get wasted.
“Hate to admit it, but I’m not a regular patron of this particular downtown establishment.”
No doubt the first of many denials by high-profile Cvillians!
(Logical follow-up question: Are you now, or have you ever been, an “occasional” patron of that establishment???)
Another question: what kind of a name is “Sexshuns” to chose for a retail store from which to deal drugs and pirated merchandise?
Why not go full-marketing mode, with something like “Crack Shack” or “Family Fence”?
those new sentencing guidelines aren’t gonna help this fella………..full range of pharmaceuticals
@5…. 40, I was thinking the same thing, DUMB!
I’ve never even noticed the place, or heard of it……no, seriously.
Pirated DVD’s is really why he is in so much trouble. Those guys at the RIAA are real bastards
At least they picked a secure location, just around the corner from the Cville Police HQ.
He should put in a room and no let out till he has taken all of his drugs. That’s how my parents would have handled it.
That place has had its window broken a couple of times. Now I know what they were looking for.
Never even heard of the joint (no pun intended). Was that the place in between Bashirs and the dog and horse store? I often wonder how some of those places on the mall stay in business, with no visible flow of customers.
Hmmm - I wonder if the Cat House is really a “cat house”. Giggity.
Can it, Mickey’s! I was going for the “I swear I am a responsible writer who patrons many local businesses for fair gossip coverage!” and also the “If you’ve ever met me and seen how I dress, ya know,…” but comment 2 did sound a little guilty, didn’t it? oy, yes, that has to be the location.
Holy frijoles! The mall will be filled with twitching, gunless crackheads. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am.
@7 Me either. I seriously did not know that the place existed.
@10 What about the pirated movies? Should he be forced to watch every copy that he made?
hehe
That place had all the markings of a front. No business, no turnover of stock, shady signs on the door. I’m surprised they were open as long as they were (about 3 years maybe?).
i walk by there every day with my dog. there was, indeed, a certain aura of sketchiness about it (although i totally missed that the names was “sexshuns” - which somehow increases the sketchiness). i remember actually looking in once and getting looks from the two people in there that clearly indicated i should never do that again.
also, seriously, SO close to the police station…
yeah, that place just screamed sketchy. is it just me, or did its profile increase in the last 6 or 8 months? i just feel like it wasn’t there at all, or wasn’t noticable, and then it was REALLY there. weird.
is this the same guy that had a little table out in the middle of the mall? he had fliers saying he sold things like iPods, CD’s, computers, etc. i always thought that one was a little sketchy, it would make a lot more sense if he was connected.
Quoting my neighbor: “they were black, and they had visitors!.
Been in there many times, never felt any sketchiness, folks working were friendly. The stuff they sold in there you could get at karmaloop for a third of the price, so I was never a patron, but still…
Does it say he was dealing out of the store, or he was dealing and happened to be the owner of the store. Perhaps only money laundering was going on the DTM.
just sayin.
/but but… his white t-shirt was a size too big! I felt threatened!
He was dealing right out of the store…i picked up an 8-ball and an ecko sweatshirt right before this all went down.
You’ve got to appreciate the cross marketing
Dang, why am I always the last one to know stuff….(why do I have to get my news from DP?)
According to a news release from the U.S Attorney’s office in Roanoke, store owner Reynold George Samuels, 39, and seven others were charged with dealing drugs and pirated DVDs out of the store.
http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/13/fbi-raids-local-business/
point well taken, b-yo. my feeling of sketchiness really came from the reaction i got the one time i walked by and looked in the window (usually i’m too focused on controlling my puppy). it must have been entirely the wrong time, for whatever reason. the look i got was not good.
The stuff they sold in there you could get at karmaloop for a third of the priceI’m sure it was all authentic product, too.
Everybody pile on the devil’s advocate! Yay!
Whatever. Just means I’ll have buy my “bling bling tweety bird as a pimp” nightgown sized shirts somewhere else. As for the drugs? Legalize, tax and regulate. No more problems (well, like this, anyway).
Have you ever watched a pirated dvd? Some of them can be pretty bad. I mean, camcorder in the theater bad. Why there is a market for them eludes me.
@23 karma’s or sexshun’s?
I assumed that the place sold dildoes.
i never even knew the place existed. but then, i figure almost any shop on the mall is overpriced.
maybe that was where the homeless folk were gettin’ their crazy from.
so good. ’cause you don’t want to hear about me seein’ more of what i saw last week,,,
happy heart day. xo.
I’ve noticed this place before, but never went in. They used to display posters in the front window of Tony Montana blazing away with his M-16 and grenade launcher, pile of coke on the desk in the backround “say ello to my litul friend” and other scenes from Scarface. Talk about keeping a low profile…
With the advent of Bit Torrent, pirated DVDs are now as good as regular DVDs. There’s no need for anyone to take a camcorder into a movie theater anymore. The factories where they press DVDs and CDs are far from secure and the distribution warehouses here in the US aren’t either.
Some of the bootlegs on torrent sites ARE camcorder recordings originally, though. And by your argument, there should be no more need for a physical dvd anymore. Which is why I remain confused as to why there remains a market for these things.
Yo, most people are idiots and can’t figure out BT. That is why there’s a market.
Ohhhhh. Got it. Its the “no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the masses” theory.
Thanks!
And guess who their landlord is ?
Well?
/tease.
Roger Clemens?
I think CPC Charlottesville Parking Corp. or something like that owns the garage, and the City is a large (largest?) shareholder, so in effect,we are their landlord… no?
Word on the Mall is that Sexshuns will now operate out of the old A&N store location. Easy move, since it’s already decorated and everything.
Your tax $$ @ work.
Lurker31: that looks ass backwards.
@38 that was either the most clever or the most lame comment ever. Possibly both. I haven’t decided yet. Check back with me in an hour.
bass ackwards???
I doubt the office / retail spaces beneath the parking garage rent at anywhere near market rate. Could well be wrong, however.
Tim, how are you feeling about it now?
blazing away with his M-16 and grenade launcher
That would be the m204
(nope, I didn’t subscribe to Soldier of Fortune. Really, not me. Not for too many years anyway…)
Sorry, I was enjoying some delicious Splendora’s. After further consideration, it was clever because it was so lame. I laughed, so I approve.
Oy, I’m the other weirdo who knows thats the m-204, just didn’t think anyone else would know.. what’r you up to tonight? I might head over to Saxx and see whats going on..
Ooops, comment 45 should be attributed to me…
doof and shenanners, sittin’ in a tree…
what’s going on here hips?
ok I am too lazy to read the whole thread, what is the m204?
49: It’s a type of grenade launcher, apparently.
mmmmmm.2O4 (the extra m’s are silent)
the m-204 is an underslung 40mm grenade launcher that attaches to an m-16/m-4. though the numerical designation applies only to the attached launcher, it is never used as a stand-alone weapon, and so the weapon system as a whole is often referred to as an ‘m-204′, though incorrectly (not wise to point this error out to one holding such a device)
Here’s a good clip of one in action, and the scene depicted in posters in sexshuns front window in the past:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx-VM8TG0xU&feature=related
Doof, Thanks, let me bask in my newfound unknown weaponry fame of sorts.
the 40mm grenade that was originally developed for the m79 (at stand alone grenade launcher) which, I believe, only arms 30 meters after being shot - my guess is that Tony Montana was using buckshot or flechette rounds, and not grenades.
and 204 somehow reminded me - it’s m203.
(weirdest. threadjack. ever.)
This comment thread is blowin’ up, yo!
Oy, “you are my idol” -my sister, circa 1983
Everybody, let’s take this thread out to bars. We’ll be dabomb.com.
OMG, we can do Irish Car Bombs!!!11!!1
lilly, …. uh. I forgot.
@38: A chica that jokes like that is good by me.