Kameha’s Coffee in Juanita has shut down after police were called to a domestic disturbance in late February involving the family running the business.

Officers arrived to the coffee shop on the 11400 block of 98th Ave NE the morning of Feb. 20 at around 8:30 a.m. after a 26-year-old woman reported her 49-year-old mother had gotten into a physical confrontation with her 30-year-old sister and was threatening to “beat the crap out of the kids.”

When police arrived they found the 26-year-old woman’s husband, her 30-year-old sister, as well as her 24-year-old brother outside the coffee shop. They reported their mother was still inside the shop. Officers entered through the front door, to which the mother demanded, “How the hell did you get in here?”

The mother told officers that her children were “ganging up” on her and trying to orchestrate a hostile takeover of the business due to the fact that while her husband had taken a lease on the building, the business license was in the name of the husband of the 26-year-old woman. She and her husband had been in Hawaii for four months, according to police documents, but she had flown home the night before when they felt their children were taking over the business after their plans to sell the business to their 24-year-old son’s husband fell through.

When she arrived that morning to the coffee shop she demanded the children leave, while the children told her she was not welcome at the shop. An argument ensued over who owned the equipment and the coffee beans, which resulted in a physical struggle between the mother and the 30-year-old woman when she attempted to pick up a bag of beans. After the altercation turned physical, the kids left through the back door.

The 30-year-old daughter told police that their mother caused such a scene in front of customers they were forced to close the business and that she had been picking up bags of coffee when her mother got into her face and screamed at her. One of the sons broke up the fight prior to leaving the property.

Police eventually determined the mother was the primary aggressor, though no arrests were made. They informed everyone they needed to leave the property. The children and the mother, went back to a shared residence on the 12000 block of NE 132nd Court.  Police were later called to the residence in the early afternoon when the mother reported her son stealing a TV he had given to her, though it was determined he had bought it for his sister and her husband., who lived at the house.

The mother told police she intended to switch the locks on the house, but officers informed her because it was the primary residence for her two daughters and son-in-law, she would be violating landlord tenant law, though she could begin the eviction notice if she desired to do so.

The building where the business was located between Juanita Beach Park and Juanita Bay Park has been mainly vacant during the past five years following the failure of a hamburger restaurant called 2CH.