City calls Sancho's Broken Arrow a public nuisance; rar remains closed as trial set for December.
slated a hearing for 9 a.m. October 27 to determine if the Grateful Dead-themed venue should keep its liquor license.
In February 2021, the DPD sent two plainclothes vice cops — Officer Sierra Kenoyer and Detective Michael James — into Sancho's Broken Arrow to conduct an undercover drug purchase. They couldn't buy drugs that night, but after two other vice officers met an employee at So Many Roads who also worked at Sancho's, they reportedly were able to purchase cocaine at the bar in September 2021, and then a second time that November.
"Tonight is the night," his Facebook post had announced."We celebrate the gift that Sancho's Broken Arrow brought to us over and over: the gift of love and community."After Bianchi's post made the rounds, people gathered at Sancho's Broken Arrow to mourn, assuming that October 26 was the bar's last night.Sancho's Broken Arrow remains closed today, and it's unlikely to ever reopen.
According to a summons that the the city issued to the property owners and all people who claim an interest in the property on August 17, because the Sancho’s Broken Arrow property was the site of unlawful possession with intent to manufacture, dispense, sell, or distribute, a controlled substance, and kept, maintained, controlled, rented, or made the property available for unlawful distribution or manufacture of controlled substances it constitutes a public nuisance.
The order also related to the contents of the buildings, including personal property contained there. Bianchi’s art collection, therefore, is subject to the temporary restraining order.