The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the landlord of the defunct Sons of Boston/Loyal 9 buy its liquor license as it looks for a more food-oriented restaurant operator to re-open the troubled space. Read more.
Loyal Nine on Union Street downtown, which was Sons of Boston until one of its bouncers killed a visiting Chicago man outside in 2022, has closed for good, will sell its liquor license to its landlord and will use any money left over to pay "the victims of, as we all know, the unfortunate incident there," its lawyer told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
Alvaro Larrama, a bouncer at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street, pleaded guilty today to manslaughter for the March, 2022 stabbing death of Daniel Martinez, a Marine veteran from Chicago in town to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Update: Name change approved.
The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides whether to let the owners of the Sons of Boston, 17 Union St., change its name to the Loyal Nine. Read more.
A worker at the Sons of Boston bar on Union Street was indicted last week on a charge of accessory after the fact to murder in connection with the stabbing death of a man outside the bar on March 19. Read more.
Board members Joyce, Saxon and Curran.
The Boston Licensing Board voted unanimously this morning to shut Sons of Boston on Union Street indefinitely because of the stabbing murder of Daniel Martinez on March 19 and earlier incidents that board members said proved the place was "an abject failure" in protecting the public. Read more.
Russell, bar attorney Carolyn Conway and Kuczynski at hearing.
Update: Board orders bar shut indefinitely.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether the Sons of Boston on Union Street warrants any punishment for the St. Patrick's weekend stabbing that killed a visiting former Marine from Chicago and left a bouncer behind bars on a murder charge. Read more.
Boston Police report that Alvaro Larrama, 39, of East Boston, turned himself in this morning at the A-15 police station for the stabbing murder of Daniel Martinez, 23, on Union Street Saturday night. Read more.
Victim identified as Daniel Martinez.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed outside 33 Union St., along the row of restaurants and bars, around 6:50 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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