UPDATE 11/01/2011:
An attorney representing Catamarans Restaurant in Solomons confirmed this morning that a circuit court judge has ordered a delay of the Calvert County Liquor Board’s decision to suspend the restaurant’s liquor license for 30 days. According to David C. Weigel of the law firm Davis, Upton and Palumbo, Judge Paul A. McGuckian ordered the delay pending the outcome of the appeal. The appeal was filed Monday, Oct. 31 and McGuckian issued the delay the same day, Weigel said a hearing date on Catamarans’ appeal has yet to be determined.
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It appears as if it will be a dry Halloween and most of November at a popular Solomons watering hole. On Thursday, Oct. 27 the Calvert County Liquor Board voted unanimously to suspend for 30 days the liquor license of Catamarans Restaurant effective Monday, Oct. 31.
The action was taken after a lengthy hearing during which Solomons residents expressed their frustrations and fears about the mayhem they claim originates at the business. The hearing before the three-member panel was prompted by a violent incident at Catamaran’s during Labor Day weekend. A St. Mary’s County man sustained life-threatening injuries during a scuffle at the bar.
Liquor Board member Beth Swoap, who made the motion to suspend Catamarans’ license, stated her concern was that the bar’s staff failed to notify police even after an employee noticed the victim was wounded and a knife was found.
“That’s unacceptable behavior,” said Swoap.
The officer who is investigating the stabbing, Det. Gregg of the Calvert Investigative Team (CIT), said he first learned of the incident when the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office contacted him about the victim, who was being treated at St. Mary’s Hospital. The victim, identified by the CIT as Demetrick N. Maddox, 24 of Lexington Park, was subsequently flown to Washington Hospital Center.
Previous incidents prompting police response were discussed during the hearing, a situation that drew protests from attorney David Weigel, one of two lawyers representing Catamarans owner James Thomas Seymour.
