Police Arranged Heroin Bust At Nasty Little Star Foods, 818 Lowry Ave. N.

Creative stock photo, somewhere south of Jackson, MS,
blog post by John Hoff

This April, an undercover agent working for the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension arranged a fake heroin buy with Keon Malone Mangun, who turned up at Star Foods, 818 Lowry Ave. N. Click here for the criminal complaint. 

Star Foods is a classic "inconvenience store" and is owned by the same guy who owned E & L Food Market before fate did us all a favor and E & L burned down...

If It Looks Like An Inconvenience Store, And SMELLS Like An Inconvenience Store (E & L Food Market, 1122 Lowry Avenue North)

Photo and blog post by John Hoff

If anything good has ever come out of E & L Food Market, 1122 Lowry Ave. N., I'd sure love to see documented proof. As far as I can tell, this is a classic "inconvenience store," and the only reason it's not on everybody's radar is simply because it's too far from any homes which might be menaced by the...

...constant dubious "hanging around" outside.

This small, nasty store is apparently affiliated with somebody named Adil Albosaad, who is listed as a contact for the store in an online resource. His name also comes up with the spectacular crappy inconvenience store known as "Star Foods" at 818 Lowry Ave. N., which was the subject of a written agreement with the City of Minneapolis, click here to read the agreement. I think it would be a good thing for decent citizens in NoMi to check, now and then, to see if agreements like this are being enforced.

In the meantime, if something walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is best to call it a duck.

E & L Foods at 1122 Lowry Ave. N. is an inconvenience store. So is Star Foods.