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Alchemy occupies a bottom corner of a downtown parking garage.
This summer at the Alchemy nightclub will be a dry one. The state is yanking the bar’s liquor license for a month.
The state’s Department of Consumer Protection announced Wednesday that Alchemy’s liquor license will be suspended from Aug. 19 through Sept. 17.
The suspension is the result of a host of violations, according to the department. Alchemy was found to have violated statutes covering sale to minors, minors in the barroom, drink promotions, restaurant permits, fire safety, and sanitation, among other things. The bar is also being punished for “refusal of cooperation.”
The bar was the scene of a controversial police raid last fall. And its owner, Romerro Farrah, was charged with brutally assaulting a patron of the club in 2009.
Farrah’s attorney, John Carta, could not be reached for comment.
2 Incidents, 1 Car?
Two overnight shooting incidents were linked to a green Mazda.
Here’s what happened, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:
At 6:07 p.m. Tuesday, multiple callers reported gunfire, three men jumping fences, and a vehicle or vehicles fleeing the area of Boulevard and Washington Avenue. Police were told the gunfire came from the rear passenger side of a green 1994 Mazda Protege. Police found shell casings at the scene.
A 29-year-old man was shot in the leg at 112 Lamberton St. in the Hill on Wednesday at 2 a.m.. The man told cops he was riding his bike in the area of Lamberton and Button streets when he was shot at from a green Mazda. He told police the car had circled the block a couple of times first.