Would you stay at a hotel with deadly drug overdoses and pool parties with strippers? After seeing a social media post advertising a 24-hour “lock-in” party at a hotel in Shakopee, Minnesota, the mayor decided to shut it down.
The Shakopee City Council voted 4-1 to revoke the Baymont Hotel’s license, citing a pattern of public safety incidents and management failures that outweighed the hotel’s efforts to remain in compliance.
City officials argued the case was not based on a single incident, rather what they described as a continuing pattern of problems that place pressure on police and firefighter resources…