LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- An embattled North Little Rock gentlemen’s club filed on Tuesday for a judicial review of the decision to revoke its liquor license.
North Little Rock’s Peppermint Hippo lost its license to sell alcohol after a March 20 hearing by the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board. The club had been cited for events going back to 2021 that included overserving of alcohol, allowing entertainers to make illegal displays, allowing customers to touch dancers and servers, and staff to assault customers.
Document details how North Little Rock adult club Peppermint Hippo lost liquor license
In its decision, the board cited over-serving of alcohol. During the hearing, ABC officials reviewed security video from a 2021 incident in which John Ribeiro was served 21 drinks and then removed from the club after a fight with staff. Once outside, Ribeiro was hit and killed on the nearby Interstate 40.
In the review petition, the attorney for the club states Ribeiro was ejected for threatening to kill patrons and staff, refused an offered ride, called his brother to help kill staff, and seven minutes after being ejected from the club, walked the 300 yards to the interstate while clearing a barbed-wire fence before he made it to the Interstate…