Warren council seeks denial of liquor license for Olympic Inn
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Warren City Council has approved a resolution asking the Division of Liquor Control to deny the renewal of the liquor license for Gadd’s Olympic Inn, 1129 Parkman Road NW.
The Olympic Inn is the tavern where police believe a gunshot was fired Aug. 4 that hit Pamela Dial, 43, who lived in a house next door. The tavern has remained closed since just after the shooting took place.
Dial was hit in the head with the bullet while she was sleeping at 2:15 a.m. She was taken to Cleveland MetroHealth Hospital, where she was in critical condition. No update on her condition is available.
Councilman Eddie Colbert said he believes all liquor licences in Warren expire in October.
His understanding is that a public hearing will take place in Warren on the license renewal at which time city officials, the license holders and neighbors would be allowed to testify.
The resolution says city council objects to the license renewal because the tavern has been operated in a manner that “demonstrates a disregard for the laws, regulations or local ordinances of the State of Ohio and City of Warren.”
It further states that the business “is so located with respect to the neighborhood that substantial interference with public decency, sobriety, peace or good order would result from the renewal of the permit.”
Warren police records indicate that police have been called to the tavern or the road in front of it 35 times. Many calls were for disturbances, assaults, noise and traffic.
Councilman Eddie Colbert said some of the 144 calls to the tavern in the past three years would suggest the tavern might qualify as a nuisance and could be shut down as a result.
Dial’s home is about 70 feet from the front entrance to the tavern.
Dial complained to police only two weeks before she was injured regarding gunfire coming from the tavern at 1:47 a.m., police records say.