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Greg Sakas: Adult Industry Better Realize What’s Going on in North Carolina

New Bern, North Carolina- Pure Bliss store owner Greg Sakas suspects his case may have taken a turn for the worse. Sakas, is due in court next week on charges stemming from a raid on his premises in January.

Then, last week, the same store was hit again and more charges were brought against Sakas including an attempt to prosecute him for dealing in controlled substances. As minute a point as it is, Sakas was merchandising video head cleaner. Sakas now has a court date in October stemming from that 9/11 raid.

As of yesterday, Sakas has also learned that police have gone after one of his employees- a woman- and are trying to get her to roll over on him. She’d been employed by Sakas since June.

“She was arrested on drug charges,” states Sakas. “She’s got a bunch of drug charges which she never informed us of. But that did not happen on our premises. They went to her on felony charges to get her to bug our other store. She went to another individual that’s involved in this case that she’s close to. And she contacted me this morning because they were giving her ultimatums.”

According to Sakas, who owns 10 stores throughout the state, the cops in New Bern are talking to police in those cities. And Sakas just got a call from a cop in Lumberton where Adam & Eve just moved in.

“We’re working on our sixth year there,” observes Sakas. “After being there six years we never had a problem. I get a phone call from a detective asking questions. I checked with the store to see if we had any complaints, we didn’t. I’m thinking the cops were in there. He asked, ‘Do you carry movies and instruments in your store, don’t you?’

“And he also said, ‘You and Adam & Eve here in town carry both don’t you?’ I said I can’t speak for Adam & Eve and as far as I’m concerned you need to contact my lawyer as far as any information. What was he trying to do- tape me to say something? Am I paranoid? I don’t know. But they’re trying to do all stops now.”

“Our attorney told New Bern’s attorney, look, you’re not fighting Greg Sakas any more. You’re fighting the adult industry, now, and if this goes further, you will have more people from the adult industry looking up. Is that true or not? I don’t know. But apparently that has made some people wonder. They’re afraid they’re going to get sued. They’re afraid that there’s no way I’m going to belly up on them.”

“And we are going to court next week,” continues Sakas. “We don’t want them to say they want to postpone it again. We want to try the first case. Whether we win or not, we want the first case under our belts. There’s no plea bargain here.”

“I think they finally realize they’ve got someone who’s not going to roll over,” states Sakas. “And now they’re looking at other cities. If they can bring me to my knees, that leaves everybody open more so. If they can get rid of me, here, and cut me down in some of the other ciies, they got more of a leeway to do things. It’s gotten a lot worse than it was a couple of days ago. These are misdemeanot charges that they’re going after. And look at the money they’re spending. Does this make sense? Can you believe this shit?”

“This is not a multi-million dollar operation,” Sakas reflects. “These are small time stores. This is relentless and ridiculous. Cops are going to other cities and trying to pull favors.”

According to Sakas, at least five of his ten stores in North Carolina have had police nosing around them.

“Roanoke Rapids they closed down and I opened it back up,” says Sakas. “And in Laurinburg where they told me they were going to take me to court, I threatened them. I told the city attorney, ‘Have you ever dealt with any thing in federal court? I’ll see you in federal court if you do anything to me.’

“I’ve gotten several cities to back down at this point- but can I go under? Yeah, I can go under. I can’t fight all these battles. Who can? Maybe Adam & Eve, Hustler and some of those people. But I don’t have those kind of resources. That store in New Bern is making less than $100 a day. The store in Roanoke Rapids, the same thing. And I’ve kept it open for six months fighting with them over the fact that things have to be covered up- I can’t have genitalia. I’ve been fighting that for six months.”

Sakas estimates that his Roanoke Rapids store has lost $100,000 since the beginning of the year. And his New Bern store has lost in excess of $50,000.

“These are small operations -you really think I can continue this?” Sakas wonders.

“I’d put a for sale sign out, but who would want it? We’re going to see how far can this go. But someone needs to wake up. This could be just the beginning. If they get away with it here, and they know they have a surefire way they can cripple this whole industry. Let’s see what states they go after, after all this.”

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