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February 27, 2007

Mollis' brother charged again with serving a minor

PROVIDENCE -- Joseph G. Mollis III, a bartender and brother of Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis, has been arrested again and charged with serving alcohol to an underaged person.

Joseph Mollis, who was fined and sentenced to community service earlier this month for serving an underaged person, was arrested again late Friday night at Bar One, 1 Throop Alley, where he tends bar, the police confirmed today.

Police Detective Anthony Hampton, without identifying himself, went into Bar One shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday and noticed three women sitting at the bar who appeared to be younger than the legal drinking age of 21 but had mixed drinks in front of them.

Hampton, using a cell phone, notified Detective Joseph Amoroso, who was outside. Amoroso said in a police report that he identified himself to a doorkeeper and then noticed a member of the bar’s security staff stride past him in the crowd and attempt to take alcoholic drinks from anyone who looked younger than 21.

Amoroso said he interceded when the security staffer tried to take an open can of beer from a young-looking woman and that he seized the beer and detained the woman, who was identified as a 17-year-old Somerset, Mass., resident. The teenager was turned over to the police Youth Services Bureau for prosecution.

The police also arrested the three women at the bar, who were quoted as saying that Mollis served them although they were not wearing the wristbands that are used to distinguish legal alcohol drinkers from those who are supposed to have only nonalcoholic drinks.

Mollis, 36, of 3 Dodge St., North Providence, was charged with serving an underaged person and was given a summons to appear in District Court this Friday.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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