{"id":895,"date":"2015-02-07T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/?p=895"},"modified":"2016-06-10T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:38:12","slug":"playland-bar-on-polk-street-closed-for-30-days-employee-caught-selling-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/?p=895","title":{"rendered":"PlayLand Bar on Polk Street closed for 30 days, employee caught selling drugs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A well known bar in lower Polk street has had it&#8217;s license suspended for 30 after one of its employees for caught selling coke\u00a0to an undercover ABC agent &amp; it was not the legal carbonated drink you can get at any bar.\u00a0\u201cHe allegedly sold cocaine and marijuana to undercover agents, but it looks like the charge on here was for marijuana,\u201d according to John Carr an ABC spokesman.<br \/>\u00a0According to their Facebook page &#8221; Playland will be closed till March 3rd for remodel. Thank you fans of Playland for your patience see you soon!!!&#8221; that&#8217;s a quote.<br \/> But the reality can clearly be seen if one reads the notice placed on the building from the ABC (Alcohol &amp; Beverage Control).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0General Manger Reuben Wartens\u00a0reportedly has said that the renovations were planned and the timing is merely a coincidence. When asked about the ABC allegations Reuben said they had no idea Gabriel Rizzo\u00a0was dealing until the day of the raid. Gabriel has since disappeared and repeated attempts to contact him have gone unanswered. Gabriel a 30-year-old resident of San Francisco, worked as a Bar back at\u00a0Playland.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The staff and bar have not been charged in relation to any\u00a0drug offenses.<br \/> Playland is a popular venue in the lower Polk street area and is particularly busy on the weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A well known bar in lower Polk street has had it&#8217;s license suspended for 30 after one of its employees for caught selling coke\u00a0to an undercover ABC agent &amp; it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/?p=895\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Playland-Bar-Front-Sign.0.0.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2F7uh-er","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/polkstreetgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}