El Rancho Blvd 2/3.0

El Rancho Blvd 2 is a private warehouse owned by former Mayor Sabith "Bunny" Cohen, shared with her husband and former Mayor Sexton "Hardcastle" Cohen and Cerberus head Nancy Drew. It neighbors the former warehouse of the HOA and the Sai Carter Gun Emporium.
== History ==
Sabith "Bunny" Cohen's warehouse (the door pictured on the right) at El Rancho Blvd 2 has a long storied history.
===   The Barn ===
Bunny's warehouse started out as the "The Barn", the headquarters and illegal stash for the shadow crime organization The Stable. The interior was decorated by Bunny's friend Pixie Plum. Bunny stayed clean while the group ran illegal activities to pay The Barn off. At times, she had to make the loan payments from her own personal savings until the group could reimburse her. Bunny and Stable Heads Mick Jhonson, Richard Chiclets, and Thomas Dwayne were the original keyholders to The Barn (Stable meth cook Kirk Jerkems would eventually inherit Mick's keys to prepare for The Stable's first big meth run).
The Barn first came under threat when The Stable's archenemy, Det. Sexton Hardcastle, thought about raiding The Barn to find the murder weapon in the ADA Malcador Sigilite homicide investigation. The next threat to The Barn occurred in October 2021 when the Ballas mistook HOA members Kian Mercer and Lilith Ailhart for Chang Gang, and gunned them down outside of 3 El Rancho Blvd (the HOA warehouse directly next to The Barn). The illegal items found by the police led them to lock down 3 El Rancho Blvd pending Jeffrey Bundy's request for a search warrant. Unbeknownst to the HOA, Judge Alan Crane did not feel that Bundy's warrant had enough probable cause to search the HOA warehouse for class 2 guns (the police had recovered one that was robbed off of Kian). To protect the HOA warehouse from a police raid, Jesus Antonio Lopez Contreras risked a false flag scheme where he kidnapped Bundy, asked why the police had locked up The Stable's warehouse, and gunned him down. To Bundy's delight, Crane subsequently approved a raid of the locked up HOA warehouse (Bundy and Crane had never heard of "The Stable" before). The HOA warehouse was raided on October 23, 2021, resulting in police seizure of 45lbs of penguin-2 meth, 200 grams of dried bud, six empty baggies, an Uzi stock, four high quality scales, and a stick of C4. The HOA warehouse owner Blanden Haster went down for drug trafficking. Later, Bundy mused what the gunman had meant by "The Stable".
The police finally closed in on The Stable and The Barn in November 2021, when Senior Stable Hand Kirk Jerkems got careless from a marathon day of meth cooks and stashed meth pillows in his own apartment instead of The Barn. Bundy seized the pillows while raiding Kirk's apartment for guns. Det. Hardcastle staked out The Barn for eight hours and one whole morning. In the finale to The Barn's story, The Stable raided it and narrowly ran the last of their meth out of the country with Hardcastle in hot pursuit. Bunny's record stayed clean from a drug trafficking charge.
===🐝 The Hive ===
Because this SCU investigation had burned The Barn, The Stable stopped using it to stash anything illegal. Bunny and former Stable Head Nancy Drew bought out the warehouse from them and renamed it to "The Hive", using it to store honey and bee's wax for their legal business Plan Bee. The Hive got raided on February 12, 2022 when the SCU surveillance camera spotted Bunny and Lester Sweets parking a stolen box truck there. Looking for Dick Chiclets' weed stash, Randy Wrangler, Tracy Martell, Lea Nova and Louis Bloom pulled Bunny and Lester over and searched the box truck with canines. Wrangler then lied to Bunny, saying that he got permission from Nancy to search the warehouse, just so that the police could enter it. To Bloom's disappointment, he only found bee's wax, honey, and broken goods inside. Bored and disinterested, Wrangler let Bunny go without any charges. Hardcastle eventually married Bunny, and ironically got keys to the warehouse he had camped at for so long.
=== Sai Carter Gun Emporium ===
The Diamond Dogs bought out the former HOA warehouse next to Bunny's warehouse, and openly advertised it as the Sai Carter Gun Emporium--complete with signs and its own ATM. Former Stable Hand Elizabeth "Lizzie" Byrne decorated the inside to match The Barn's interior design.
=== Flop Dugong's Gun Emporium ===
Flop Dugong purchased the Emporium warehouse (with Jeffrey Bundy) after assisting Chief Justice Alan Crane in foreclosing the property. The warehouse was repurposed to an SCU Meeting and Hangout Room.
At the end of July 2023, Nancy Drew noticed a barrier gate arm blocking the entrance to the warehouse lot.
== Gallery ==
The barn.jpg|The Barn
Screenshot (3966).png|Stable Heads inside of The Barn
Hardcastle-barn stakeout.png|Det. Hardcastle staking out The Barn
Sai carters gun emporium.png|Sai Carter Gun Emporium off El Rancho
FlopBundyEmporium.png|Flop Dugong's Gun Emporium
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