Seven Businesses Fail Alcohol Check

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By Daren Sukhram

IOWA CITY - Thursday evening Iowa City police tested 44 businesses for alcohol compliance, and seven failed.

Underage people accompanied by plainclothes officers attempted to buy alcohol.

These seven establishments failed the check:

• Donnelly's Pub (110 E. College Street)
• Etc. (118 S. Dubuque Street)
• Hawkeye Hideaway (310 E. Prentiss Street)
• I.C. Pit Stop (300 Kirkwood Avenue)
• Kum & Go #52 (25 W. Burlington Street)
• North Dodge Express (2790 N. Dodge Street)
• Short's Burger & Shine (8 S. Clinton Street)

The offending employees were charged and released for selling/providing an alcoholic beverage (beer) to an underage person and had to pay a fine totaling $735.

Additionally, each violation will be forwarded to the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division for civil penalty against the liquor license.

Click here to see the business who passed.

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