UPDATE: The sheriff’s office said a man who owns Club Energy was arrested Saturday night.Derrick Hemby, of Westmoreland County, was arraigned and released on his own recognizance, pending a preliminary hearing on July 20, the sheriff’s office said.”Hemby was arrested by our office late Saturday night and charged with felony criminal trespass and felony criminal solicitation for gaining entrance to Club Energy Saturday afternoon in violation of the court order issued on Friday shutting down the business,” a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said in an email Sunday.According to the criminal complaint, an LCB officer who was driving past the property saw that the signs that stated no entry was to be made had been removed from the front door. A Pittsburgh police officer went inside and spoke with a man who said he is a locksmith, and that he was contracted by Hemby to change the locks and that he never saw court order paperwork on the door, according to the complaint.PREVIOUS: Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies padlocked two Pittsburgh businesses on Friday.The sheriff’s office said injunctions were posted at Club Energy, which is on Kelly Street in Homewood South, and The Lobbi, on the Bausman Street side of 300 Brownsville Rd., Knoxville.”The injunctions were the result of efforts by the Allegheny County District Attorney to stop business at the locations because both were operating without a liquor license and because the locations had become nuisance properties creating a public safety concern,” Sheriff Kevin Kraus’ office said in a statement.A hearing on the injunctions is set for next week.
UPDATE: The sheriff’s office said a man who owns Club Energy was arrested Saturday night.
Derrick Hemby, of Westmoreland County, was arraigned and released on his own recognizance, pending a preliminary hearing on July 20, the sheriff’s office said.
“Hemby was arrested by our office late Saturday night and charged with felony criminal trespass and felony criminal solicitation for gaining entrance to Club Energy Saturday afternoon in violation of the court order issued on Friday shutting down the business,” a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said in an email Sunday.
According to the criminal complaint, an LCB officer who was driving past the property saw that the signs that stated no entry was to be made had been removed from the front door. A Pittsburgh police officer went inside and spoke with a man who said he is a locksmith, and that he was contracted by Hemby to change the locks and that he never saw court order paperwork on the door, according to the complaint.
PREVIOUS: Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies padlocked two Pittsburgh businesses on Friday.
The sheriff’s office said injunctions were posted at Club Energy, which is on Kelly Street in Homewood South, and The Lobbi, on the Bausman Street side of 300 Brownsville Rd., Knoxville.
“The injunctions were the result of efforts by the Allegheny County District Attorney to stop business at the locations because both were operating without a liquor license and because the locations had become nuisance properties creating a public safety concern,” Sheriff Kevin Kraus’ office said in a statement.
A hearing on the injunctions is set for next week.
