Mayor Eric Adams and NYC Sherriff Anthony Miranda were on NY1 Thursday to discuss a raided deli suspected of selling cannabis illegally and supplying other retailers from a stockroom.

“It looked like a normal deli or bodega just to find out it was just a front,” Adams said.

Adams was at the raid.

“They were moving serious product,” he said.

Around 640 smoke shops have been shuttered since launching “Operation Padlock to Protect” initiative in May.

“These shops are magnets for violence,” Adams said. “The legal shops are now starting to see their profits increase because we have been targeting the illegal locations.”

City authorities have seized about $20 million in illegal products and issued around $53 million in fines and penalties.

“We seized over $3 million worth of product at this location,” Miranda said of the raid on East Tremont Avenue in the Bronx.

A new bill in the Council introduced Thursday would make the mayor regularly publish enforcement figures, but Adams said the focus should be raids, not reports.

“Every time we add a new layer of reporting, we’re taking people off of the actual goal of doing the job,” Adams said during an interview on FOX 5.

These raids lead to more than a padlock. Two people were arrested during the raid.

At a second shop on East Tremont Avenue raided Tuesday, five men were arrested and charged with five counts of possession, two of them felonies, according to officials.

An NYPD officer detailed in a criminal complaint that the men were found in a stockroom of a smoke shop with nine bags of cannabis. At this location, the sheriff’s office said 176 pounds of cannabis, pre-rolled joints, vapes and edibles with psilocybin mushrooms were seized.

NY1 reached out to their attorneys for comment — one maintained his client’s innocence.

The raids result from tips from the community.

“It’s their information that allows us to do the investigation that we’ve been doing,” Miranda said.

The sheriff’s office said these raids were part of smoke shop inspections — that is, no warrant.

“In 95% of these cases we’re seeing, there’s no warrant whatsoever and the recourse of the merchant is to then have an administrative hearing that really is a pantomime for due process,” Joseph Bondy, a criminal defense attorney and cannabis advocate, said.

Once these cases make it past administrative judges and in front of trial judges in state supreme court, Bondy thinks these raids will get more constitutional scrutiny.

“Many of these merchants don’t have the funding necessary to go launch an appellate campaign nor do they think at the end of the day, when they’ve been shut down at a hearing with no witnesses whatsoever and a judge that won’t entertain the constitutionality of the practice, they’re disenchanted,” Bondy said.