A mix of plainclothes and uniformed officers, some wielding shotguns and outfitted with bullet-proof vests stormed an after-hours club early this morning.
Many people were taken to awaiting police wagons in handcuffs as police executed a search warrant at The Comfort Zone at Spadina Ave. near College St. shortly after 6:00.
Police are not releasing many details about the incident other than it was a routine sweep of the club by officers from the Emergency Task Force, the Drug Squad and members of 14 Division.
Authorities have said they will reveal more about the case at a press conference tomorrow morning.
One apparent witness says:
dude, it was not routine!!! there were 200 cops in there, with at least 50 swat team members. They ran a HUGE operation, shit was hitting the fan. 90% of the people in there got charged, all the doors were broken down, walls were taken down, pool tables, bathroom stalls couches - nothing was left unturned. they even had to call in paramedics, people were kicked around, strip searched, even molested. what a horrifying experience, and to think it was our first time in the place after hearing about it for so long...
Update
"Right now, there's nothing to stop them from opening this weekend,"
Maybe, but would *you* go?
Despite 33 arrests and more than 65 drug charges after an early morning raid Sunday on a downtown after-hours club that one detective described as "a flea market for drugs," police acknowledged Monday they are powerless to close it down.
Detective Sergeant Ed Roseto said nearly 100 officers surrounded the Comfort Zone, a rave club on Spadina Avenue that is notorious for open drug use and sales, and began clearing out the cavernous building, arresting patrons and staff alike as they went.
"The floor, the seats, the tables . . . were covered with little vials and pill," he told a news conference Monday.
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I went. I wanted to see for myself because I believe this club is being unfairly targeted. Arguably all of the Entertainment District clubs have widespread drug use and sales totaling far larger dollar values than what was seen at the CZ raid. Further, the police narrative about why this happened (a young naif stumbled into drug use, and before too long bought drugs at the CZ that lead to his overdose death) is apparently missing a lot of key details (ie, that the person in question was not a "young innocent" but a well-known dealer himself). Those details don't fit into police justification of the raid.
I left something out of my last comment. The point about the guy being is a dealer is that he apparently supplied himself with his own GHB. The police claimed that he bought it at CZ and that that thus was the pretext for the raid. Making it all seem pretty bogus.
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