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Man Arrested For Breaking Into Bar, Selling Drinks
cbs13.com ^ | 7-21-10

Posted on 07/21/2010 1:49:44 PM PDT by rawhide

Auburn,CA. A Placer County man has been arrested after he broke into a shuttered bar, reopened the business and started selling drinks to unwitting customers, according to the Placer County Sheriff's department.

The Placer County Sheriff's department arrested 29-year-old Travis Kevie of Newcastle after his 4-day stint as the barkeep of the historic Valencia Club in Penryn which had been shutdown for more than a year.

Detective Jim Hudson became suspicious after reading about the Valencia Club's re-opening in an Auburn Journal newspaper article that featured a picture of Kevie and identified him as the club's new "owner/operator". Not only had Detective Hudson had previous run-ins with Kevie, he knew the Valencia Club's liquor license had been surrendered.

When Detective Hudson went to the bar to investigate, he found it open for business and customers at the bar. Kevie quickly went from behind the bar to behind bars.

Deputies describe Kevie as a transient. They say he broke into the Valencia Club and put an open sign in the window on July 16th. Kevie kicked off his business with a six-pack of beer he bought and resold at the club. He used his profits to buy more alcohol keeping the club open throughout the weekend serving about 30 customers a day, deputies say.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: arrested; bar; drinks; napl
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Travis Kevie in a picture featured in the Auburn Journal article about the re-opening of the landmark Valencia Club. Kevie was arrested the day after the article was published.

A picture inside the Valencia Club showing Travis Kevie cleaning a neon Corona sign before his arrest.

A picture inside the Valencia Club showing Travis Kevie holding up some of the money he "earned" illegally selling alcohol before his arrest.

1 posted on 07/21/2010 1:49:47 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide
Back around 1994 the heavyweight contender Mitch "Blood" Green was broke. He walked into a gas station on the Grand Central Parkway by LaGuardia Airport, punched out the two attendents and spent the next few hours pumping gas and pocketing the receipts.

Green was half of the best heavyweight fight of the decade when he and Tyson duked it out on the street at three in the morning outside a leather store in Harlem.

2 posted on 07/21/2010 1:53:50 PM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: rawhide

Now this is the kind of crook I can support. A hard working, happy guy. He takes lemons and makes lemonade. What’s not to like?


3 posted on 07/21/2010 1:53:50 PM PDT by equalitybeforethelaw
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To: rawhide

Should pin a medal on the guy. He starts with a 6 pack and a dream....


4 posted on 07/21/2010 1:53:54 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: rawhide

Well, I think liquor licenses are bogus shakedowns, anyway.

I hope he doesn’t serve much time.


5 posted on 07/21/2010 1:53:54 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: rawhide

He’s a real entrepreneur! A little unconventional, perhaps, but his financial principles are sound.


6 posted on 07/21/2010 1:54:39 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Communism - it's all shades of black.)
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To: rawhide
Kevie kicked off his business with a six-pack of beer he bought and resold at the club...30 customers per day... If nothing else, it shows that without the impact of taxes and government interference, you can quickly grow a business. The lack of capital investment for the structure on Mr. Kevie's part didn't hurt either...
7 posted on 07/21/2010 1:56:28 PM PDT by CreviceTool ( “Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of a God” Evan Thomas)
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To: rawhide

A Horatio Alger in the Obama Era story.


8 posted on 07/21/2010 1:56:28 PM PDT by frithguild (I gave to Joe Wilson the day after, to Scott Brown seven days before and next to JD Hayworth.)
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To: rawhide

He’s in jail for offending the powers that be, not for ripping off anyone.


9 posted on 07/21/2010 1:56:38 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: rawhide

Nice work if you can find it!


10 posted on 07/21/2010 1:56:44 PM PDT by kenavi (What drove BP to drill 5,000 feet down?)
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To: Persevero
I hope he doesn’t serve much time.

He'll serve more time than Lohan.

11 posted on 07/21/2010 1:57:30 PM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: rawhide

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before....”A man walks into a bar....”


12 posted on 07/21/2010 1:57:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hold muh beer!


13 posted on 07/21/2010 2:00:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: rawhide
Deputies describe Kevie as a transient.

So a trannsy was running an illegal bar operation. That's what the Stonewall riots were about and museums now celebrate that as "liberating".

14 posted on 07/21/2010 2:01:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: rawhide

The next thing he will be doing is selling bail bonds..


15 posted on 07/21/2010 2:01:40 PM PDT by Dem Guard (Throw the trash out on November 2nd!)
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To: rawhide

I understand the need to do things the right way, and the landlord needs his piece, but in this day and time, someone employing people needs to be permitted to do what he can do.


16 posted on 07/21/2010 2:02:32 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: dfwgator

A man breaks into a bar with a chip on his shoulder.

There’s no bartender in the room so he says, “Hey, drinks are on the house” and climbs up on the roof.


17 posted on 07/21/2010 2:03:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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To: Lurker
Should pin a medal on the guy. He starts with a 6 pack and a dream....

Exactly what I was thinking. If it wasn't for the freaking government interfering with his entrepreneurship he would probably be able to buy the property in a year or so.

18 posted on 07/21/2010 2:03:28 PM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: a fool in paradise

DAMN! I hope you are joking! A transient is not (usually) a transexual (tranny). Transient: tran·sient /ˈtrænʃənt, -Ê’É™nt, -ziÉ™nt/ Show Spelled[tran-shuhnt, -zhuhnt, -zee-uhnt] Show IPA –adjective 1. not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory. 2. lasting only a short time; existing briefly; temporary: transient authority. 3. staying only a short time: the transient guests at a hotel. 4. Philosophy . transeunt. –noun 5. a person or thing that is transient, esp. a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like. 6. Mathematics . a. a function that tends to zero as the independent variable tends to infinity. b. a solution, esp. of a differential equation, having this property. 7. Physics . a. a nonperiodic signal of short duration. b. a decaying signal, wave, or oscillation. 8. Electricity . a sudden pulse of voltage or current. Use transient in a Sentence See images of transient Search transient on the Web ———————————————————————————————————————— Origin: 1590–1600; < L transi ( Ä“ns ) (nom. sing.), prp. of transÄ«re to pass by, lit., go across + -ent; see transeunt —Related forms tran·sient·ly, adverb tran·sient·ness, noun non·tran·sient, adjective non·tran·sient·ly, adverb non·tran·sient·ness, noun un·tran·sient, adjective un·tran·sient·ly, adverb un·tran·sient·ness, noun —Synonyms 2. fleeting, flitting, flying, fugitive, evanescent. See temporary. —Antonyms 2. permanent.


19 posted on 07/21/2010 2:05:28 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: Persevero

Be sure to tell him the next time your family goes away for a week.

I’d love to see what he’s able to accomplish with your home.


20 posted on 07/21/2010 2:06:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The NAACP is a bunch of cracker-hating bigots and I condemn the NAACP for being a racist element.)
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