Monday, April 8, 2013
The St. Charles Liquor Commission fines The House Pub $500 plus $500 in costs, as well as a three-day suspension for liquor license violations, profanity-laced confrontation with police.
The House Pub, 16 S. Riverside Ave., will have to suspend liquor service for three days later this month and pony up $1,000 in fines and costs for three liquor code citations in which the bar allowed an intoxicated man to enter and then served him a drink, leading to a profanity-laced confrontation between one of the owners and police. Mayor Donald P. DeWitte, the city’s liquor commissioner, told Thomas P. Wojick and Stephen Erd, whom police identified in their report on the March 15 incident as the pub’s co-owners, that he considered the “belligerent” and “aggressive” actions by Wojick as a particularly serious violation. The $500 fine and $500 in costs were for allowing an intoxicated individual to enter the establishment and a second …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Mayor says authorities can’t account for 2½-hour gap from the time a Streamwood man left The Beehive until he was cited with public drunkenness.
The Beehive Tavern & Grille, 204 W. Main St., which came under scrutiny by St. Charles officials after a March 14 incident in which an intoxicated man who had been in the bar earlier made several calls to an elderly woman’s apartment asking her to open the door, will not be cited in the incident. Police cited John J. Palomo, 32, of Streamwood, with disorderly conduct-public drunkenness for his role in the incident. He was cited at 3:08 a.m., and told officers he had called the elderly resident in an attempt to get inside the apartment building in the 200 block of North 2nd Street so he could get warm. But Palomo also told police he had spent the night drinking at The Beehive and produced some credit card receipts to prove it, and that …
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The House Pub faces a fine, costs and a possible suspension of its liquor license when it appears before the St. Charles Liquor Commission over a profanity-laced incident on March 15.
The city has slapped a St. Charles bar with three liquor code citations in which the bar is accused of allowing an intoxicated man to enter and then served him a drink, leading to a profanity-laced confrontation between one of the owners and police. The House Pub, 16 S. Riverside Ave., faces fines and the possible suspension or revocation of its liquor license over the March 15 incident, according to the citation and notice of hearing the city issued this week. Accompanying the citation is a five-page police report, which includes four pages of officers’ narratives about the incident. Originally reported by police as an incident involving two potential citations — one for allowing an intoxicated person to enter the establishment, and a …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Policed followed drunken man into House Pub to find him with an alcoholic beverage. The police report records an expletive-laced conversation with one of the owners.
Two St. Charles police officers stopped for a traffic light at East Main Street and Riverside Avenue watched a drunken man stumble around the sidewalk before entering a downtown bar. What came next, after the officers parked their squads and followed the man into The House Pub, 16 S. Riverside Ave., was a profanity-laced confrontation with one of the owners that will be recorded in a report of a state liquor commission violation to the St. Charles Liquor Commission. Police said the incident began about 1:02 a.m. Friday, March 15, 2013. The officers parked their squads and headed to the bar and was met on the sidewalk by owners Thomas P. Wojick and Stephen J. Erd. The officers explained they were checking on an intoxicated individual and …
A Streamwood man is charged with public drunkenness after trying to enter a building to stay warm by calling a tenant and demanding to enter.
What started as a report of a suspicious incident ended with one man being cited with disorderly conduct-public drunkenness and a local bar being reported to the St. Charles Liquor Commission on a report of harboring an intoxicated person on Thursday, March 14, 2013. According to police, John J. Palomo, 32, of the 100 block of Heritage Lane, Streamwood, was cited with disorderly conducted-public drunkenness at 3:08 a.m. after an 83-year-old resident of the 200 block of North 2nd Street called 911 to report that a drunken man was calling her apartment and asking that she open the door and made comments about knocking the door down. Officers responding to the residence found an intoxicated man identified as Palomo, who one of the officers …
Monday, March 4, 2013
St. Charles Liquor Commission comes down hard on Alibi for third violation since May 2012.
The city on Monday laid down a $2,000 fine and $500 in costs against two downtown bars, one of which also will have its liquor license suspended for three days later this month. Mayor Donald DeWitte, the city’s liquor commissioner, announced the penalties during a St. Charles Liquor Commission meeting to review the complaints again the Alibi Bar & Grill, 12 N. 3rd St., and The Beehive Tavern & Grille, 204 W. Main St. The Alibi, which was awarded its Class B-3 liquor license nearly 13 months ago, will have it’s license suspended for three days — from 7 a.m. Wednesday, March 20, through 2 a.m. Saturday, March 23. The suspension means the establishment will not be allowed to serve alcohol during those days, although DeWitte said the …
Thursday, November 8, 2012
An employee at the Wild Monk, another at Liquor & Wine, were arrested. The citations also have been forwarded to the St. Charles Liquor Commission.
St. Charles police cited two employees with selling alcohol to minors while conducting liquor compliance checks at local businesses Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. Police used two civilian special agents who were 18 and 19 to check the businesses for compliance with liquor laws, according to a St. Charles Police Department release on Thursday. According to the release, the department completed it’s fourth-quarter compliance checks on Friday, with officers checking 17 establishments checked. Fifteen were found to be in compliance. The two remaining establishments — Wild Monk, 51 S. 1st St., and Liquor & Wine, 2460 W. Main St., were cited under a city ordinance for selling alcohol to a minor. Police arrested Candice K. Widerski, 32, of the 1800 block …
Ted Schnell
12:55 am on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
It was not in the report, Mitch. To my knowledge, the police rarely administer a Breathalyzer or blood test to measure blood-alcohol content outside of DUI incidents. Officers are trained, however, to evaluate individuals' general level of intoxication based on such things as balance/coordination, among other factors -- surely you've seen officers have individuals do roadsie sobriety tests before. more ›