Nov 25, 2009 9:26 am US/Eastern
Commissioner Decides To Close Mount Vernon Club
Reporting
Don Scott
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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Commissioner Fred Bealefeld has decided to close the Suite Ultra Lounge.
CBS
A Mount Vernon club will spend the next year padlocked.
Don Scott reports police have linked the Suite Ultra Lounge inside the Belvedere Hotel to numerous crimes and neighbors have called it a nuisance.
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld has ordered the club to be padlocked for one year, starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Mount Vernon residents say the young patrons of the Suite Ultra Lounge Club drain police resources and make the community dangerous.
"We can't go out past 10 o'clock at night. The whole neighborhood is in a siege," said one Mount Vernon homeowner.
"If we're going to be effective in further reducing crime in Baltimore, we need a team effort from businesses, residents and police," said Bealefeld. "We simply can't sit idle and ignore significant instances of violence that undermine safety and quality of life."
In the past year, a stabbing, double shooting and two robberies involving guns took place outside the club.
Those who support a padlock of the club say it only took one or two incidents to destroy a community's reputation. They hope a shutdown will help to rebuild it.
The city liquor board also attempted to shut down the club two months ago.
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