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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,010 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 02:48 PM Mar 2020

NYC bar operator the 1st person arrested for violating COVID-19 executive order

The operator of a bar in Brooklyn is the first person to be arrested under New York City's executive order banning nonessential gatherings and business as authorities take steps to enforce the mandate amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Police arrested Vasil Pando, the operator of the Miami II Sport Cafe in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn, over the weekend.

New York City has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., with more than 33,700 confirmed cases and over 770 deaths from the virus.

Authorities said they received several 311 complaints on Saturday about people gathering to drink and gamble inside the club that appeared closed from the outside. The first complaint came in around 5:15 p.m. on Saturday night, and another one came in at 10:30 p.m. that same night.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/nyc-bar-operator-the-1st-person-arrested-for-violating-covid-19-executive-order/ar-BB11Vdry?li=BBnb7Kz

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NYC bar operator the 1st person arrested for violating COVID-19 executive order (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP

WTH are people thinking? SheltieLover Mar 2020 #1

Gambling, liquor without a license... thesquanderer Mar 2020 #3

The article seemed to state that it was a bar. JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2020 #5

"the establishment had no New York State liquor license to serve alcohol, authorities said." n/t thesquanderer Mar 2020 #6

We are all CIs now. gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #2

Sounds like a good way to lose a liquor license. Bad business decision. nt JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2020 #4

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)

1. WTH are people thinking?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 02:50 PM

Mar 2020

K&R

Keep him in jail!🤬

thesquanderer

(11,989 posts)

3. Gambling, liquor without a license...

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 04:20 PM

Mar 2020

Sounds like it was the kind of establishment that doesn't worry about the police.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,343 posts)

5. The article seemed to state that it was a bar.

Reply to thesquanderer (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 31, 2020, 06:19 PM

Mar 2020

To me, that means an establishment licensed by the state. That license is gold, makes no sense to risk losing it.

We've had illegal after-hours joints in Detroit. "Blind Pig" was a common term for that type of establishment. I don't hear much about them anymore.