By Dennis Oda, Star-Bulletin
Councilman Andy Mirikitani leads picketers against the
Inserection store in McCully yesterday. The picketers say a
sex-related store doesn't belong in a neighborhood where teens,
such as these high school cross country runners who stopped
to see what was happening, pass by.

Adult video store
protests eviction from
McCully site

7-Eleven, reacting to complaints,
said it was deceived and will
proceed with eviction

By Gordon Y.K. Pang and Gregg K. Kakesako
Star-Bulletin

Inserection Adult Fantasy Store will fight a pending eviction from its site on McCully Street, a store representative said today.

The landowner, 7-Eleven Hawaii Inc., said it was misled about the business and would evict Inserection from the site.

"That's totally ridiculous," said Erik Clabaugh, Inserection store manager. "We have a right to be here and we deny any misrepresentation on the part of (parent company) Focus Entertainment International."

Focus Entertainment supplied all information requested before signing a 10-year lease, including the extensive financial records of the company, he said.

Jim Boersema, 7-Eleven spokesman, said the company's real estate agent was told by the representative of Focus Entertainment International that "it would be operating a video store like Blockbuster."

After the opening of the Inserection Adult Fantasy Store three weeks ago at 1111 McCully St. upset neighbors, Boersema said 7-Eleven representatives talked to store owners.

The property owners "are upset and plan to take legal action," Boersema said.

Yesterday, the shop at McCully and Young streets was picketed by protesters.

The opening of the McCully store prompted City Councilman Andy Mirikitani last week to introduce a bill banning adult establishments within 500 feet of homes, schools, churches and each other.

Boersema said 7-Eleven began initiating actions against the store two days before Mirikitani raised the issue publicly.

"Once they found out they did it on their own," Boersema said.

Clabaugh, however, said he learned of the eviction notice on the radio this morning. In fact, he said, he received a notice for payment of next month's rent in the mail today.