PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – The Providence Board of Licenses has approved a three-week suspension of the license for a hookah bar where a man was stabbed to death earlier this month.
Nara Hookah Lounge agreed to a deal with the city where it would close for one week in November and two weeks in January. In addition, the business will close at 1 a.m. for the rest of October and have a 90-day police detail.
The lounge closed for a week following the death of 46-year-old Troy Pine, of Providence.
A lawyer for the lounge says the disciplinary action is “very fair.”
WPRI-TV reports 41-year-old Joel Francisco is a suspect in the stabbing and is the subject of a law enforcement manhunt.
