The owner of a Lusby bar is facing a long list of charges stemming from an incident that allegedly occurred at his business Sunday, Oct. 21.
According to documents on file in District Court of Maryland for Calvert County, Michael Edward Ricker, 47 of Lusby, the owner of C.J.s, is alleged to have pointed a loaded shotgun at four patrons during an incident at the bar.
The investigating officer, Deputy J. Brown, responded to the report of “a subject with a gun” shortly before midnight. “Upon my arrival I observed people standing outside and inside the bar,” Brown stated in court documents. “I asked where the man with the gun was and the crowd responded he was hiding inside and the shotgun was still with him.” Brown said he established a perimeter around the business and evacuated all the patrons. Brown, Cpl. Cox, Sgt. Richard Selkirk and Deputy Quinn conducted a building search but were unable to locate the gunman.
“After making sure the location was safe and no one was in danger I made contact with the complainant,” Brown stated.
The complainant told Brown that “the owner of the bar had come up to him with a shotgun and chambered a round saying ‘get the [expletive] out,’ multiple times,” Brown stated in court documents. The man who claimed he was accosted told the officer he then ran out the bar and called 911.
One of the patrons interviewed by Brown “advised he ‘challenged the owner to an arm wrestling match’ prior to being accosted by Ricker, who by then was allegedly brandishing a shotgun.
Two of the patrons Brown interviewed indicated Ricker made have been intoxicated when the incident occurred.
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