GOOD JOB MATTHEW SMART & MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT'S ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT!

Wow, you'd think that with all the adults arrested for non-violent, consensual "crimes" that we didn't have anything better to do with our police department. Of course with lowered recruiting standards it's no wonder we can't find cops that don't know the difference between video games and slot machines.

I don't think it's contradictory that the local government attempts to "generate tourism" by subsidizing nightclubs on Beale while attempting to run all other night clubs out of business. The subsidies and favorable zoning go to people connections with bureaucrats, like John Elkington (just an example). These powerful are being protected by eliminating the competition. It's just more evidence that our government is no more that a protection racket run by those in power, at the expense of the rest of us. "Organized Crime Unit" is just more Orwellian doublespeak.

Election time is near, everybody back into the missionary position.

Also Matthew Smart was one of the biggest complainers if you look at his post Thyckness shows his letters to the Owner trying to get back in .Tell me this if you sat there and dissed the place and posted things on several web sites and said it is so corrupt why would you wanna go back to that place.He's just throwing a fit because he couldn't get back in honestly if you wanna know what i think,i think he should have been sitting in jail right there with the Owner he is just as guilty as every one else is.There are numerous times that he would sell to underage knowing that they were and still give it to them.As for the liquoir there are severel times that he would fix him a drink from the liquior customers brought in and got so drunk that he couldn't finish the job.Half the time he wouldn't clean his bar and leave it a mess.Matthew Smart is two faced.The owner wanted us to tell him if there were any ppl in there that sold or did drugs.If Matthew Smart knew about this why didn't he say anything to him.I have seen the Owner kick ppl out because they were smoking pot on the padio.He dissed the Owner and the club the majority of the time the letters he wrote was because he was trying to kiss up to the Owner after he was outted for the anti-backstreet stuff.

The reason that I sent Shane Trice the e-mails asking to get back in was to get more information to give to the Organized Crime Unit.

Shane Trice is trying to play this off as a Hate Crime when in fact it is a crooked businessman that got caught end of story.

The fact remains that undercover police and investigators have evidence and are pursuing legal charges against him.

Shane Trice is threatening retaliation suits against me and I have to tell him that Police Records indicate everything I have stated in public.

Thank you Memphis Police Department for taking down this company.

Matthew Smart

Using the MPD for your own personal vendetta against Backstreet and the owner is despicable. Matt Smart's friends should ostracize lest they be next. Nobody likes a snitch.

OK. really? I mean illegal is illegal. Ya'll all act like drugs/sex in clubs and all this shit is all okay... Really listen to yourselves!

Have some morals.... and do the right thing!

Matthew should be commended for doing the right thing. Shane Trice is a piece of shit and needs to go down. He's trying to claim that his civil rights have been violated. I've been in that club too many times to count and have personally seen everything he's been accused of (and more) except for the gambling payouts. You do the crime, be ready to pay the time.

Payroll disputes aren't normally a police matter, much less OCU. Something else is going on that we aren't hearing about.

But I would like to hear from all of these eyewitnesses exactly how a touch screen game gives a payout.

I use to work for Matthew, he was one of the best bosses I have had, very rule abiding. Matthew is a very eccentric individual but an honest eccentric and there is no crime against that! In my opinion Shane Trice should come up on Wikipedia when someone looks up "scum". Lots of people are saying "the gambling didn't happen" that still does not count out the drugs, sex, illegal sales to minors and such. Partially guilty still equals guilty. GOOD JOB MATTHEW!!!!

This Matthew Smart sounds like a major tattletale. Got an apple for the teacher, Matthew? Barf.

Its okay "greeeen", sounds like you would promote the sale of illegal drugs. Plus nobody would expect anything more mature than you calling someone who did their civic duty a "tattletale".

It's the Fun Police. I've been to Backstreet several times and never once felt grossed out like I do at most of the straight bars. Dancing, singing, fun people, great time. But, oh yes, thank god we have killjoys to blow the cover off of such 'dangerous' places.

Backstreet doesn't gross you out? Wading through urine and feces in the bathroom isn't gross? Your feet sticking to the carpet isn't gross? People getting scabies from the darkroom isn't gross? Perhaps if you live like swine, you don't have a problem with it. Luckily for me, I'm cleaner than that. There are many things about Backstreet that disgusted me, which is why I didn't patronize the place very often. For you people who have a problem with Matthew Smart...why is it that you can't give one substantial reason to be upset with him other than he "ruined your good time" or is a "tattletale"? Either you're extremely immature, or you're just ignorant. Whatever motive Mr. Smart had is of no significance. Illegal is illegal; and if you condone illegal acts, then you're not entitled to complain. I'm happy the place is closed, and I respect what Mr. Smart has done.

Kudos to Matthew and the MPD!!! I didn't frequent the bar, but have been there enough to have seen the vile things that go on in that place. I have witnessed drug deals and drug use. Also seen minors drinking there. And I have seen the disease spreading whores doing what they do best in the dark room. And almost every time I have been there I have seen fights. After all this, it's no wonder the gay community has such a bad rap.

Again, thanks to Matthew and the MPD!! Hopefully your efforts will close this place down permanently.

This is the biggest bunch of crap. Even the person above says he never saw gambling which is what it took to get this warrant to come close backstreet. ANd if you don't think these closed minded hipocrit officers and that DA yes Biill Gibbons was there I personally saw him. This was an attack on a lifestyle and a piece of property that a group would like to rezone.And an employee that stopped at nothing to tell the police what they wanted to hear. The truth of all of this will come out just wait and your all gonna be outraged. The only thing that was an issue that carried any clout was promotion of aggrivated gambeling. These people locked a buisnessman of this city up and not just any buisnessman. This is one that has made huge contributions to this town not only giving all of us with deverse life styles a place to go but redeveloping the crosstown area with his hard earned money and excellent credit. Most who have done anything in that are are wealthy folks trying to find tax breaks and free money from us tax payers to do their projects. Shane Trice has never asked for one of these. He has never asked for tax credits of any kind. He pays his fare share of property taxes on every commercial and residental building he owns in this city. Backstreet has never promoted haveing sex, nor drugs, nor gambeling PIEROD. When has a buisness ever been shut down by the da that has not had an issue in 15 years with this city. COME ON FOLKS.. ANd this new law gives him the athority to go to a judge with LIES and abtain a warrant and do these things. ANd for all of you Gay People this was on the Anniverssary of Stonewall (A Gay Rights Movement) Im sure a certain saturday morning talk show host had a lot to talk about. THE TRUTH WILL COME OUT DON'T YOU WORRY. And Backstreet will reopen in that same location. Just not if your not registered to vote GO REGISTER TODAY IT IS THE LAST DAY! Just like during stonewall you can assure yourself BAckstreet, Metro, Marys and Shane Trice will fight for you just as the bars and citizens did 50 years ago on that Saturday Night. But we need all of you to be registerd and ready to put people in office that have EVERYONES CIVL RIGHTS AT HEART and we need to get rid of the ONE'S THAT DON'T. FOr a city this size to listen to an ex prostitute that brags about sleeping with 486 peole all the times word to charge a great man that has MUCH respect for this city and people with a felony for promoting aggrivated gambeling on the very same machines that are in ever bar in Memphis is about as corrupt as one town can be and we need to get rid of it.

So Matthew Smart (aka gay_in_memphis, see posts below where he signs his name) is congratulating himself and OCU. I suspect that many of the other comments originate from Mr. Smart.

I am sure that there is an FX mini series in here somewhere.

WELL FOR ALL OF YOU THAT SAY IT'S NASTY AND ARE GLAD IT'S CLOSED HEAD TO SENSES/AMNESIA EVERY THURSDAY & SATURDAY NIGHT!

WHO IS IN THE PICTURE on this Story? That is not SHANE unless he lost his hair? IS IT?

yes that is him