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A pair of Newark women were arrested for running an illegal bar and throwing a 200-person party complete with gambling amid the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities said.
Detectives from the Newark Police Division’s Vice Crimes Task Force investigated reports of a large party at a warehouse located at 6 Libella Ct., where two women were selling alcoholic beverages from behind a makeshift bar around midnight Sunday, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said.
More than 200 patrons were eating, drinking alcohol and participating in illegal gambling in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ambrose said.
The women were identified as Denisse Tinizaray, 26, and Katherine Tinizaray, 28, both of Newark, Ambrose said.
NJ police shut down illegal warehouse bar amid COVID restrictions after finding 200 people partying inside - and arrest two women
Katherine Tinizaray, 28, and Denisse Tinizaray, 26, charged with maintaining an illegal alcohol establishment, illegal possession and sale of alcohol
Women accused of running illegal bar out of a warehouse in Newark, where police discovered 200 people drinking, eating and gambling
New Jersey has coronavirus restrictions in place banning indoor gatherings of more than 25 people