Sancho's has a date with the city tomorrow, but is it closing tonight?
slated a hearing for 9 a.m. October 27 to determine if the Grateful Dead-themed venue should keep its liquor license.
In February 2021, the DPD sent two plainclothes vice cops — Officer Sierra Kenoyer and Detective Michael James — into Sancho's Broken Arrow to conduct an undercover drug purchase. They couldn't buy drugs that night, but after two other vice officers met an employee at So Many Roads who also works at Sancho's, they reportedly were able to purchase cocaine at the bar in September 2021, and then a second time that November.
At the hearing scheduled for October 27, an independent hearing office would listen to testimony from both the Denver City Attorney's Office and a representative of Sancho's Broken Arrow. The hearing officer would later issue a recommendation regarding the bar's liquor license, which would be reviewed by Molly Duplechian, executive director of Excise and Licenses. She would have the ultimate decision on whether the bar could keep its license.