Officials detail 4 reasons Hotel California denied permit

AUSTINTOWN

Hotel California was denied its liquor permit because of the arguments Mahoning County assistant prosecutors made during the two-day liquor hearing last November.

Assistant prosecutors Gina Bricker and Dawn Durkin reviewed the past of the hotel’s previous bar area, the Go Go Girls Cabaret, and its legal history from 2009, citing instances of improper conduct, solicitation, after-hours consumption and illegal sale or possession of dangerous drugs.

The hotel is at the corner of 5455 Clarkins Drive and 1051 N. Canfield-Niles Road and is owned by Sebastian Rucci.

“Law enforcement officers and township officials are concerned that the issuance of this permit will cause the problems” of the Go Go’s past “to resurface,” the letter said. The letter was dated Feb. 2 and signed by Bruce Stevenson, superintendent of the Division of Liquor Control, a branch of the Ohio Department of Commerce.

There were four reasons for the denial.

Read Thursday's Vindicator or Vindy.com to learn what those are.