Sebastian Rucci hearing on illegal alcohol sales delayed a week

AUSTINTOWN — A sentencing hearing for the former owner of a shuttered dance club has been postponed until 6 p.m. next Monday in Mahoning County Area Court here.

Sebastian Rucci, who owned the Go Go Girls Cabaret near state Route 46 and Interstate 80, is charged with eight counts of providing alcohol without a valid liquor license.

The hearing was to have been at 6 p.m. today at the court but was rescheduled because Judge David A. D’Apolito was unable to attend, said Ken Cardinal, the assistant Mahoning County prosecutor assigned to the case.

In December 2011, the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Liquor Control confiscated all alcohol from the cabaret, saying the establishment’s liquor license was defunct.

Later, the club adopted a policy allowing patrons to bring their own alcoholic beverages. Nevertheless, Rucci was charged with serving alcohol in violation of the injunction, prosecutors said.