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The revocation hearing on the liquor li- pled guilty to perjury in Ramsey District
cense of the Ja-Mar Bar drew the atten- Court for hiding his ownership of the bar
tion of Mr. and Mrs. John Crea Monday located at 1201 Jackson St. — Staff Pho-
before the St. Paul City Council. Crea has to by Mark Morson.
Liquor license revocation
to be proposed to council
By JACK RHODES The pair pled guilty in Raiu ness, police Sgt. Richard-Sun-
Staff Writer sey District Court to scheming to mons, of "ongoing harassment"
circumvent liquor licensing laws of Crea. However, Simmons tes-
The St. Paul Police Depart- by hiding Crea's ownership of the tified that he was just carrying
ment and the Finance and Man- bar. Official papers show Mar- out his duties as a police officer
agement Services Department cum as the bar licensee. She told in investigating Crea and that he
will be recommending that the the court that she had no interest did not, in Miley's words,"have a
Ja-Mar bar's liquor license be in the establishment and had personal vendetta against Crea."
revoked, City Attorney Suzanne signed the papers as licensee as After nine witnesses in four
Flinsch told the City Council a favor to Crea. hours, the City Council recessed
Monday. CREA NOW WANTS to trans- the hearing until 1:30 p.m.
In the first leg of a council re- fer the liquor license to James Thursday in council chambers of
vocation hearing, Flinch said R. Bell, a St. Paul attorney, and City Hall. It is expected that
License Inspector Joseph George N. Croft, Bell's brother- Crea, Marcum and Perkovich
Carchedi's statement last week in-law. The buyers have offered may testify at that time.
in opposition to revocation had $195,000 for the license and
not been authorized by his supe- building,but a council vote to re-
riors. yoke the license would kill the
deal.
Carchedi had advised the City
Council that "revocation would James Miley, attorney for
be much too severe for the of- Crea, Monday questioned why
fense committed, and suspension Carchedi's position against revo-
would be more appropriate." cation had been overruled.
Flinsch said Carchedi would Miley said he would attempt
be making no recommendation to show that the city attorney's
during the hearing because he office and "some small portion
had not had access to police files of the Police Department have a
on the Ja-Mar case. personal vendetta against John
Crea" and are determined to
ALSO, CARCHEDI "is a take away the liquor license.
friend-of a possibly interested
party in this matter," said Under questioning by Miley,
Flinsch, referring to Joseph Per- Carchedi testified that there had
kovkch, former Ja-Mar owner never been another occasion in
and holder of a contract for deed his six years as license inspector
on the bar building at 1201 Jack- when he had, as Miley put it, re-
son St. mained mute and passed the cup
to Carlson.
Carchedi's boss, Bernard Carl-
son, will be testifying in favor of Miley accused another wit-
revocation on behalf of the
Finance Department.
An investigation earlier this
year by St. Paul police and the
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension resulted in grand
jury indictments against Mary
Marcum, 59, Birchwood, and
John Crea, 53, Maplewood, for
conspiring to commit perjury on
Mrs. Marcum's application to
receive the Ja-Mar license
through a transfer