GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Michigan Liquor Control Commission has revoked Lucky’s Downtown Market’s liquor license, after it was found liable for selling alcohol to minors and intoxicated persons seven times in less than a year.

“The licensee has shown a pattern of indifference to the real dangers of selling alcohol to minors and visibly intoxicated individuals,” MLCC Chairman Andy Deloney said in a statement. “The licensee failed to demonstrate any policies and procedures that would protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public; the Commission decided that revocation was the proper course of action to take.”

Under state law, the commission is required to suspend or revoke a businesses’ liquor license if it sells alcohol to minors or intoxicated persons at least three times on different occasions during a two-year period.

Lucky’s, located at 24 Division Ave. S, was found liable of seven violations between August 2017 and June 2018. Five of those violations were for selling alcohol to an intoxicated person. Two were for selling alcohol to minors.

The store has also had ongoing issues with indecent exposure, public alcohol consumption and urinating in public, according to surveillance by the Grand Rapids Police Department.

In a news release issued Wednesday afternoon, the state said Lucky’s Downtown Market did not show it was trying to fix the problem.

“There was nothing to indicate that the licensee had conducted additional trainings, written employee policies, terminated responsible employees, or implemented new technologies to proven the future sale of alcohol to minors or prevent the sale of alcohol to visibly intoxicated individuals,” the news release stated.

In response to ongoing issues at Lucky’s, GRPD surveilled the store and nearby area last summer, witnessing at least two violations.

In one incident, on June 24, 2018, a man, holding a bottle of liquor he just purchased from Lucky’s, was seen assaulting a woman. The man was given a breathalyzer test, and the results showed his blood alcohol content was almost three times the legal limit to drive.

And on July 6, 2018, police witnessed a woman who was walking down the middle of the street after purchasing alcohol at Lucky’s. The woman told police she was drunk, and the results of a breathalyzer test showed her blood alcohol content was almost three times the legal limit.