Starting in September, Spoontonic Lounge will close by midnight, seven days a week, in an attempt to dissuade a recent uptick in crime.
that bar staff blames on newer, younger patrons who “don’t know how to behave” since the pandemic.
While Spoontonic logged only seven calls for police service — including public intoxication, possession of firearms, assault, multiple fights, and possession of cocaine for sale — from January to May 2023, one of those calls was prompted by a Spoontonic employee who activated the venue’s “panic hold-up alarm.” After an intense fight erupted between 40 people, police said one of the bouncers helped a suspect discard a firearm and evade officers.
Starting Friday, he said the bar will also stop hosting live DJs and explore adding a jukebox or even a karaoke machine to the space. Additionally, Walia said he felt the police statistics paint a misleading picture of their business, and ignored increased calls to other local bars nearby.the department tallied 61 responses
“We would have good, productive conversations on how to remedy certain situations,” Jower said, “but at the end of the day, nothing that we could see was changing.”
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