Thirsty Turtle Owner Gets a Clean Slate from Liquor Board

The county's Board of License Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday night to wipe clean the record of former Thirsty Turtle owner Alan Wanuck, according to the Diamondback. 

The board voted in November to revoke Wanuck’s liquor license after the bar was busted for serving underage patrons as part of police sting orchestrated by the University of Maryland. However, the revocation had not yet been formalized in writing when Wanuck decided that he would surrender the license, rather than make an appeal to keep it. 

 occurred earlier on the same day that a  was to take place to address another instance of the bar serving underage patrons, one that in this case led to a on Baltimore Avenue.  

Because Wanuck also ran for 20 years without incident, the board determined Wednesday that Wanuck's record need not be tainted with a revoked liquor license, and voted to let his record state that it was voluntary forfeited instead. 

Wanuck's record still shows one violation for serving an underage student alcohol, the only lingering evidence of the three violations the Thirsty Turtle received in the two years it was in business. 

Read the full story at the Diamondback.