ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — An Orange County bar is closed after investigators said it was running as an illegal strip club and selling liquor without a proper license. The Los Compaz Bar and Grill on South Orange Blossom Trail has the same name as another bar that was shut down and accused of the same thing last year.
Raw: Bar owner says MBI wrongly shut down his business
Channel 9’s Karla Ray spoke to the bar owner, who he said the investigators who arrested him have it all wrong. Jose Abreu, who was arrested Thursday night, says he has beer and wine licenses and that they were issued before the MBI started its investigation. But undercover agents said they were able to get shots of hard liquor, for which Abreu does not have a license. Abreu said the liquor-type bottles are all wine-based liquor substitutes. Investigators said women on the bar were selling lap dances, which is illegal without an adult establishment license. “This is just like the movie ‘Coyote Ugly.’ They get up on the bar and they do a show, no nakedness. This is not a strip club,” said Abreu. Agents told a different story. “For the right price, customers could go outside or inside the business and get different acts of prostitution for the right price,” said Sgt. Roland Rivera, of the MBI. Abreu is facing charges of running an adult entertainment facility without a license as well as selling liquor without a proper license and operating a bottle club without a license.
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