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A man has been charged after a bar was found allegedly trading illegally in the CBD at the weekend.
Officers attached to Sydney City Police Area Command were called to Bridge Street about 12.30am Sunday (29 June 2025), and found several hundred patrons inside a business whose liquor trading licence had been suspended.
An estimated 380 patrons were evacuated from the venue and the bar shut down.
A 32-year-old man was arrested a short time later and taken to Day Street Police Station where he was charged with seven offences,
- Sell liquor without a licence
- Open, keep or use premises to sell liquor without licence
- Development not accord consent – any other case
- Fail to produce licence to police officer etc on request
- Employ etc bouncer without current RSA endorsement, and
- Development not accord consent – any other case (two counts)
The man, from Forest Lodge, has been granted conditional bail to appear in Downing Centre Local Court on 23 July 2025.
About 9.30am today (Wednesday 2 July 2025), police executed a search warrant on the business, seizing the remaining alcohol from the premises.
