A public notice in the Kimble County legal-notices page named exactly one person — "Mohammad Gazi, LLC member" — behind a pending beer-and-wine permit application. The word "member" implies there are others. Texas doesn't require an LLC to say who they are: state filings disclose officers and managers, not members, and the one document that's actually supposed to capture ownership — the permit application itself — isn't published. Working backward from the applicant's own Texas Comptroller filings, we found it's one of at least 13 identically-structured LLCs, registered to the same Memphis, Tennessee address, sharing a pool of just seven names, already holding 25 active retail alcohol permits across the state. This report tracks that structure as we find more of it — it will be updated, not just published once.
A public notice ran on a Kimble County legal-notices page: an application had been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Wine and Beer Retailer's Off-Premise (BQ) Permit by SWTX Velocity LLC, d/b/a Velocity #31, to be located at 1928 N Main St, Junction, TX 76849. "The owner of said company is Mohammad Gazi, LLC member." That phrasing — naming one member of something that, by definition, can have several — is what prompted a closer look.
Texas doesn't publish LLC membership. What the Texas Comptroller does publish is the Public Information Report (PIR) each LLC files annually with its franchise tax return — but a PIR discloses officers, directors, and managers, not members. The document that's actually supposed to capture beneficial ownership, the Ownership Information Report, is confidential by statute and never appears on the Comptroller's public site. So a search that stops at SWTX Velocity LLC's own Comptroller record finds exactly what the notice already said: one name, Mohammad Gazi, listed as President.
"Velocity" turns out to be a roughly 25-store fuel and convenience-store brand operating across the Hill Country and southwest Texas — Junction, Kerrville, Ingram, Del Rio, Alpine, Laredo, Fort Stockton, San Antonio, and smaller towns in between. Texas's own TABC license dataset lists every active Velocity-branded permit and the exact legal name of the LLC holding each one. Pulling each of those LLCs' Comptroller filings — and following registered-agent names and shared mailing addresses to entities that don't hold a store permit themselves — surfaces a pattern: an "Ops" LLC holding the actual retail permit, often paired with a same-named "Holdings" LLC that doesn't. SWTX Velocity LLC itself already holds five active BQ permits (Del Rio, Fort Stockton, Encinal, and two in Laredo) before Velocity #31 would make a sixth — this is a repeat, established operator, not a first-time single-store applicant, which makes the notice's one-name disclosure a stranger fit.
All 13 LLCs below were independently confirmed twice: once by reading each entity's Public Information Report through the Comptroller's public search tool, and a second time through the Comptroller's own public-data API (franchise-tax endpoint), which returned matching officer records.
| Entity | SOS File # | Registered Agent | PIR Officer(s)/Manager(s) | Mailing Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWTX Velocity LLC (Velocity #31 applicant) | 0805808402 | Mohammad Gazi | President — Mohammad Gazi | Memphis, TN |
| CTX Velocity LLC | 0805070171 | Khaled Ornob | Director — Raja Doddi | Memphis, TN |
| South TX Velocity LLC | 0804848306 | Khaled Ornob | President — Aruna Kumari Kolluri | Memphis, TN |
| SA Velocity Holdings LLC | 0805381742 | Khaled Ornob | President — Raja Sekhar Doddi | Memphis, TN |
| SA Velocity Ops LLC | 0805381773 | Khaled Ornob | President — Khaled Ornob | Memphis, TN |
| Alpine Velocity Holdings LLC | 0805790801 | Raja Sekhar Doddi | President — Raja Sekhar Doddi | Memphis, TN |
| Alpine Velocity Ops LLC | 0805790816 | Raja Sekhar Doddi | President — Raja Sekhar Doddi | Memphis, TN |
| NSAT Velocity Stores LLC | 0805483282 | Khaled Ornob | President & Director — Khaled Ornob | Memphis, TN |
| NCSA Velocity LLC | 0806091757 | Khaled Ornob | Owner — Khaled Ornob | Memphis, TN |
| South SA Velocity LLC | 0806242306 | Khaled Ornob | Manager ×4 — Ahidul Alam, Khaled Ornob, Md Al Amin, Mohammad Nahid Hossain | San Antonio, TX |
| Velocity DriveThru LLC | 0805326031 | Khaled Ornob | President — Khaled Ornob | Memphis, TN |
| Velocity Drive Thru Plus LLC | 0805979006 | Raja Sekhar Doddi | President — Raja Sekhar Doddi (home address listed as the Memphis mailing address itself) | Memphis, TN |
| Velocity 21 Ops LLC | 0805979533 | Raja Sekhar Doddi | President — "Khaled" (surname truncated in filing) | Memphis, TN |
"Memphis, TN" mailing address for all but one entity is 3246 Players Club Cir, Memphis, TN 38125 — a multi-tenant commercial office building, not a residence. South SA Velocity LLC is the only entity in the network mailing to a San Antonio address and the only one disclosing more than one officer, which is how the four managers above became visible at all. Data pulled September 27, 2026 via the Comptroller's public search tool and public-data API; PIR filings update annually and can change.
Nothing about this structure is unique to Velocity, and none of it is, by itself, illegal. Splitting a "Holdings" entity that owns the equity from an "Ops" entity that holds the operating permit is a standard small-business liability and financing pattern. The issue is what it does to public visibility, not what it does legally: a citizen reading a single TABC notice, or even pulling that one LLC's own Comptroller filing, has no way to see the other 12 entities, the shared address, or the four-manager filing that happens to exist one layer over on a sibling company. Each filing is individually accurate and individually thin. It's only by enumerating every permit under the brand and cross-referencing every entity's own filing that the actual officer pool — seven names, repeating in different combinations — becomes visible.
The one place Texas law does require an applicant to disclose actual ownership is the permit application itself, which TABC does not publish. That's the gap this report is trying to close directly: on September 27, 2026, we filed a Texas Public Information Act request with TABC for the ownership-disclosure records behind the Velocity #31 application (see tracker below).
| Agency | Date Filed | Subject | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| TABC | 2026-09-27 | Ownership/officer/member disclosure records for the SWTX Velocity LLC / Velocity #31 BQ permit application, plus disclosures for any other TABC permits held by the applicant or its officers | Pending |
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