A French Quarter clothing store that authorities say masked a bustling drug and gun trade has been shuttered, the culmination of a months-long investigation that netted more than $150,000 in illegal proceeds, officials said Wednesday.

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announced the seizure at an afternoon news conference outside Kulture, the shop in the 300 block of Burgundy Street that investigators say doubled as a front for drug and gun sales.

The store’s closure was the latest step to dismantle businesses “sucking the life out of” New Orleans neighborhoods, Williams said, through a coordinated effort by his office and a team of other agencies that include the New Orleans Police Department, Louisiana State Police, Homeland Security Investigations and the federal Bureau o

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