A Denver bar known as Mecca Sports Bar has been under investigation for prostitution since 2024. It’s coming to mild now as a result of town’s Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection requested a listening to for the bar about their liquor license and dance cabaret license. Both are in limbo.
“There’s rules and regulations for a reason. Whether you’re a liquor license business or anything else that’s required to have a license in this city, we want to protect health, safety and welfare,” mentioned Eric Escudero, who works in the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection. “And if you’re a business that is not going to comply with those laws, you put your business’s existence at risk.”
Mecca Sports Bar is positioned off West Mississippi Avenue and Federal Boulevard close to Huston Lake Park and was previously referred to as Club Dubai.
A report by the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection outlines Denver Police Department’s investigation. In October 2024, DPD says it acquired an nameless grievance claiming younger women had been working at Mecca Sports Bar and providing male prospects off-site bottle service. At the tip of the night time, the ladies would allegedly be dropped again off on the bar and paid for the night time by the bar supervisor.
Denver police performed three undercover prostitution stings on the bar in August, September and November. In each operation, officers had been provided intercourse for cash and instructed a few scheme the place the ladies would overcharge for alcohol and hold the additional money.
It seems just one lady was arrested throughout these police operations.
Denver PD has acknowledged that the investigation exists and are trying into whether or not extra arrests have been made.