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RAMSFY COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE <br />PATROL DIVISION <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: May 21st, 2008 <br />TO: Kathy Glanzer, Little Canada City Hall <br />FROM: Commander Mike Salter <br />RE: Bangkok Avenue Restaurant <br />At the request of the City of Little Canada, I'm writing this review of police calls at the <br />Bangkok Avenue Restaurant. In 2007, the ownership of a restaurant in the 2900 Rice <br />retail development changed. The restaurant that was formerly My Le Hoa became the <br />Bangkok Avenue Restaurant. We did not have a significant history of police calls to the <br />My Le Hoa Restaurant, but starting in late 2007, typically on weekend nights, we started <br />getting calls to Bangkok Avenue on some large scale fights and assaults, <br />Our responding deputies often found on arrival scenes resembling the aftermath of a riot, <br />with smashed beer bottles strewn on the ground and cars streaming out of the parking lot. <br />Inside the restaurant they would find the restaurant staff to be less than cooperative, with <br />employees unwilling to provide witness information. <br />The deputies also found that the restaurant appeared to be a night club instead of a <br />restaurant, with large quantities of beer bottles on the table, but little or no food in sight. <br />Upon inquiry, they found that most of the beer retailed on the premises was sold by the <br />12 -pack or case to tables of patrons. Crowds on those busy nights were estimated at 200 <br />to 300 people in the business. Deputy Troy Patterson, our primary Little Canada Deputy <br />assigned to the Midnight Shift, has written a memo on his observations of the conditions <br />at the Bangkok Avenue Restaurant when he responded to calls there. I have included his <br />memo with this memo. <br />On May 6111, 2008, Deputy Patterson and I met at the Little Canada Hall with Joel Manson <br />and Kathy Glanzer, from the City of Little Canada, and with Robert Thao, the owner of <br />Bangkok Avenue. Deputy Patterson and I expressed our concerns about the serious <br />assault calls that we've had at his restaurant, the irresponsible manner in which beer is <br />sold in the restaurant, and the lack of cooperation that we have received from his <br />employees when we have responded to fight calls at Bangkok Avenue. <br />5 <br />