Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher is asking the county court to shut down a bar in West Scranton he deems a nuisance.<\/p>\n
The petition, filed Tuesday, follows multiple reports at Isla Paraiso Restaurant, 1001 S. Main Ave., including a firearm discharge over the weekend and a prior instance of a bullet striking a neighboring residence, he said in the court filing.<\/p>\n
It names Paraiso Caribeno Corp. doing business as Isla Paraiso Restaurant, as well as Nicholas Tsioles, Cynthia Tsioles, and Franchesca N. Franco, as respondents to the petition.<\/p>\n
The court\u00a0 ordered the bar to be temporarily shut down while the petition is pending, but Gallagher wants that closure to be permanent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese incidents raise serious public-safety concerns,\u201d Gallagher said in a release. \u201cAlthough the establishment appears to operate as a reputable lunch spot during the day, it becomes an after-hours nightclub operating until 2, 3, and 4 o\u2019clock in the morning. The sale of alcohol, loud music, drugs, and illegal firearms are wreaking havoc in the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bar poses a risk both to residents and responding law enforcement officers, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe encourage and welcome businesses from anywhere that invest responsibly in the City of Scranton and in Lackawanna County, but when an establishment\u2019s activities result in late-night disturbances, extended hours, and bullets flying in the roadway, we will pursue every appropriate legal remedy and act decisively to protect our residents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will not wait for a tragedy to occur or for something horrible to happen before we take action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judge Michael Barrasse is scheduled to decide the matter Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County District Attorney Brian Gallagher is asking the county court to shut down a bar in West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,729],"class_list":["post-277102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}