Surveillance cameras recorded a man grabbing a Buddha statue from the counter of the restaurant.

Drag Queen Sushi descends in a large replica of a women’s high heel shoe on Thursday in Key West. (Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO)KEY WEST, Fla. – Gary Marion, better known as Drag Queen Sushi, stepped into Key West’s giant red high-heel shoe on Thursday. Female impersonator Gary Marion, known as “Sushi,” descends in a large replica of a women’s high heel shoe in the back courtyard of a Key West, Fla., entertainment and hotel complex Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, to celebrate the beginning of 2021. (Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO) (Florida Keys News Bureau)Instead of midnight, Marion took the courageous step before 10 p.m. to abide by the curfew. (Rob O’Neal/Florida Keys News Bureau/HO) (Florida Keys News Bureau)Aside from the New Year’s Eve Shoe Drop, Key West also celebrates with the drops of a super-sized conch shell and a pirate wench, but the events were canceled.

KEY WEST, Fla. – There will be no Red Shoe Drop this year in Key West. But this year, the party atmosphere of New Year’s Eve in Key West will be cut short, and the shoe drop hangs in the balance, as the city has decided to impose a curfew. The City of Key West posted on Facebook that the curfew will begin at 10 p.m., Dec. 31, and will end on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021 at 6 a.m.Decided after an extensive discussion at Thursday’s City Commission meeting, Key West Mayor Teri Johnston enacted the emergency directive “in order to avoid a public health emergency during the New Year’s holiday.”All non-essential businesses will close on or before 10 p.m. each night. Persons shall be in their residences or lodging establishments no later than 10:30 p.m. each night. The curfew will be effective from 10 p.m. each night through 6 a.m. the next morning.