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SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - Hot Shots Pub will have its liquor licence suspended for two days and must pay a $750 fine for serving an intoxicated person on April 22, 2009.

During a liquor licensing bar hearing on May 25, Hot Shots' co-owner Penny McHugh admitted that her staff violated the Liquor Act on April 22. As a result, Hot Shots will not be permitted to serve alcohol on Wednesday, June 25 and Thursday, June 25.

The pub, located in the Stanton Plaza off of Borden Drive, was found not guilty on another similar charge, however. That charge pertained to allegations that bar staff served alcohol to an intoxicated man on April 28, 2009.

Staff at the Liquor Shop, which is in the same plaza as Hot Shots, said they saw an intoxicated man enter Hot Shots and contacted police, but offered some conflicting details. Liquor board chair Don Kindt relied on the words of an RCMP officer, who testified he had gone into the bar, spoken with an individual who was known to him and that the man did not seem drunk and was not causing trouble. The officer then left the bar.

"There was some testimony that was contradictory," Kindt said. "The person who ought to have known best what was going on in the bar was the RCMP."

He said the board dismissed the charge since the RCMP officer in the bar found no violations had occurred.

McHugh said after the hearing "I agree with it all."