Ian Bick
DANBURY – First, Danbury High School graduate Ian Bick had his entertainment license suspended for his downtown juice bar Tuxedo Junction over an 18-and-older concert where alcohol was served.
Now the 19-year-old Bick has been served with a cease and desist order from the Zoning Department over the same concert in April.
Bick is already fighting a 15-count federal indictment accusing him of defrauding friends, classmates and their parents out of $500,000. While he has been out on $250,000 bail awaiting his trial, he has been running concerts out of his club on Ives Street.
On Tuesday the city suspended Bick’s entertainment license for 30 days over an April 9 concert where alcohol was served in the same building with an under-21 crowd.
Bick argued that he had barriers and bouncers between the bar and the underage crowd, but the city’s top zoning officer said the barriers were not approved ahead of time.
Then late Wednesday the city sent Bick a cease and desist order for violating the zoning code requiring a special permit for retail alcohol sales.
The cease and desist order – the latest in a litany of trouble Bick has gotten into with the city in the last year – is a warning that if alcohol is sold again in his club the city will take him to court.