BAR FACES BAN ON ALCOHOL : CLUB TARGETED AS PART OF CITY-STATE PROGRAM.Byline: Daniel Taub Daily News Staff Writer Standing in front of a Van Nuys Boulevard bar neighbors call a trouble spot, officials announced Monday morning that the city has filed a lawsuit to prevent the establishment from selling alcoholic beverages
Maeva Night Club, near San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , is the first business to have its conditional use permit targeted under the $100,000 Operation ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , a program run by the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . and funded by
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Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon also announced that in its first four months, Operation ABC resulted in 137 ABC-related arrests and almost $170,000 in ABC fines in the LAPD's Foothill Division. ``I'm here to report to you it's been a tremendous success,'' Alarcon said at the Monday press conference. Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. James Hahn said during the press conference that his office filed a civil abatement suit Friday against Maeva Night Club, which among other ABC violations is accused of employing ``B girls,'' women who are paid by the bar to solicit drinks from men. ``If you're irresponsible in the way you run your business, you're going to have to face the music,'' Hahn said, calling Maeva Night Club a ``problem location'' responsible for 40 percent of the crime in the neighborhood since 1994. The bar owners could not be reached for comment. LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officers have visited Maeva 32 times - 13 of them for violent offenses - between the beginning of 1992 and Feb. 23 of this year, according to Hahn. Alarcon said that Maeva's violations include serving drinks to minors. Officials said that one of the bar's operators is awaiting sentencing for felony assault with a gun in connection with an incident at the bar last summer. ``That is why we're targeting this particular site,'' Alarcon said. LAPD Sgt. Kris Pitcher, Operation ABC's coordinator, said that the program uses a ``two-pronged'' approach to reducing alcohol violations, educating as well as enforcing. One of the programs Operation ABC runs is Informed Merchants Preventing Alcohol Related Crime Tendencies, or IMPACT for short. IMPACT sends uniformed LAPD and ABC officers to check area bars and inform their operators about potential alcohol-related violations, Pitcher said. Operation ABC also operates a decoy DECOY. A pond used for the breeding and maintenance of water-fowl. 11 Mod. 74, 130; S. C. 3 Salk. 9; Holt, 14 11 East, 571. program using minors attempting to buy alcohol. Twenty-eight of the 114 businesses targeted in the first four months of the year - almost 25 percent - either did not check identification or knowingly sold alcohol to minors, Pitcher said. Other violations have included improperly licensed security guards and failure to pay sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. , Pitcher said. Pitcher said that ABC has already uncovered nearly $3 million in sales tax violations in 1996 through the program. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Pacoima residents hang out as a press conferen ce on a city suit against the Maeva Night Club is held Monday. (2) City Councilman Richard Alarcon says the alcohol program is working. David Crane/Daily News |
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