NORTH SHORE, Hawaii -- Officials shut down a North Shore business on Wednesday after its owner accumulated more than $1 million in city fines.

The surf shop at the corner of Pupukea Road and Kamehameha Highway was an illegal commercial operation on residential land, city officials said.

Maui Loa Price and his father before him defied city demands to halt commercial use of his property. After fines exceeded $1 million, the city and Price's lender agreed to foreclose.

As the locksmith changed the locks on Planet Surf, the Native Hawaiian landowner challenged the foreclosure commissioner.

"You think you are going to take my land? You think you are going to take land?" Price said to the foreclosure commissioner.

Officials on Wednesday enforced the foreclosure by seizure to the surprise of the store manager.

"Basically it kind of catches me off guard because I don't know the whole story," manager Jonathan Hood said.

In addition to a surf shop the building had a small Internet café.

"I just come here to use the Internet, and it's really going to be missed because now you have to go all the way to Haleiwa," customer Vanessa Floyd said.

The city hopes that the business being shut down will be a message to others who are violating building and zoning codes.

Foreclosure is also underway on a Price property just up Pupukea Road, where he set up shop on Wednesday and on a third family parcel near Sunset Beach.

Price has offered to pay the fines, but the city said the commercial activity has to stop first.

"You are the third-tier people, you are immigrants, you're not the natives of this land. Don't mistreat us. We will hold you liable," Price told officials.

The property could be on the auction block before the summer's end.