Mahoning County seeks to shut down Austintown bar

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Prosecutor Paul J. Gains is seeking an injunction to close and padlock an Austintown bar, where he said underage alcohol violations and criminal activities abound.

Gains and Kenneth J. Cardinal, an assistant county prosecutor, filed a civil nuisance complaint late this week in common pleas court seeking to shut down Shotz Bar & Grille Inc. at 3713 Oakwood Ave.

The suit seeks a court order to shut down the bar for a year and sell off the bar’s alcohol stock, equipment and furniture allegedly used to maintain the nuisance.

“Shotz is a place upon which lewdness [lawless, bad and vicious] behavior is conducted, permitted, continues or exists on a daily basis during operating hours, and constitutes a nuisance,” the lawsuit says.

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