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Unlicensed Smoke Shops Selling To Kids In Yonkers: 'Like Wild West,' Mayor Says Unlicensed Smoke Shops Selling To Kids In Yonkers: 'Like Wild West,' Mayor Says
Unlicensed Smoke Shops Selling To Kids In Yonkers: 'Like Wild West,' Mayor Says A city in Westchester has seen a dramatic rise in unlicensed smoke shops selling cannabis and other illegal products to children, officials said.  According to Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, unlicensed smoke shops that peddle cannabis and other products containing THC have popped up all over the city despite the police department's best efforts, he said in a press conference held on Thursday, March 9.  "It’s become like the wild west," Spano said, adding that similar products have also been sold in bodegas, gas stations, and even barber shops in the city, and often use colorful marketi…

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Yonkers Landlord With 70 Violations Arrested Yonkers Landlord With 70 Violations Arrested
Yonkers Landlord With 70 Violations Arrested A prominent Westchester landlord with more than 70 fire and housing code summonses on his record tried to fight the law, and the law won. The City of Yonkers’ top fire and building code scofflaw and landlord, Aurielo Assuncao, was arrested late last week after avoiding bench warrants from more than 70 housing and fire code summonses that have been issued by the Fire Department and Department of Housing and Buildings. Assuncao was taken into police custody on Friday, Jan. 18 and held for code violations at the five properties he owned or once owned. According to Yonkers officials, over the …

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by Zak Failla