Denver officers have began proceedings to remove a southwest Denver sports activities bar’s liquor and dance cabaret licenses after workers have been discovered working as prostitutes within the bar, in line with courtroom data.
Ladies working at Mecca Sports activities Bar, 2915 W. Mississippi Ave., in Denver’s Athmar Park neighborhood, routinely supplied prospects in and out of doors of the bar intercourse for cash, together with undercover cops, in line with a show-cause order from the town.
The Denver Police Division’s vice and narcotics unit obtained data from the Colorado Division of Income’s Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division “about prostitution, illegal liquor exercise, and illicit narcotics gross sales occurring on the bar,” the order acknowledged.
An order to indicate trigger is a court-ordered directive for a celebration to seem and clarify why a particular, requested motion — on this case, the revocation of the Denver bar’s liquor and cabaret licenses — shouldn’t be permitted.
Mecca Sports activities Bar didn’t reply Thursday to requests for remark.
Colorado Division of Income officers instructed Denver police that an nameless criticism had been made about younger ladies working on the bar providing males “off-premise bottle service,” in line with the order. The women would go away with the shoppers, be dropped again off on the bar later within the evening and be paid for the evening by the bar supervisor.
The vice unit launched an undercover operation at Mecca Sports activities Bar, previously often called Membership Dubai, in August 2025, metropolis officers wrote within the show-cause order.
An undercover officer contacted a younger lady who walked out of the bar and approached the officer’s automobile, the order acknowledged. She instructed him it could value $300 for “culear” — a typical Spanish slang time period for “intercourse,” in line with the doc.
The officer agreed and the lady acquired into the automobile, officers mentioned within the doc. When the officer instructed her it was a sting operation, the lady admitted that she and the opposite workers would go exterior to “have interaction in prostitution.” She additionally mentioned they might often buy liquor contained in the bar and resell it to prospects at the next worth.
Additional undercover operations in September and November of 2025 revealed that extra girls on the bar have been partaking in prostitution and overcharging prospects for revenue, in line with the doc.
One lady instructed officers that the Mecca didn’t explicitly enable prostitution-related work, however she mentioned a number of workers would ask males to depart first after which observe them exterior for intercourse, police mentioned.
Throughout one of many undercover operations, officers found a bar safety guard was armed with an airsoft gun. The person had a sound non-public safety license however was not licensed to hold an airsoft gun whereas on responsibility, metropolis officers wrote within the show-cause order. That was additionally cited as a cause to revoke the bar’s licenses.
The order was despatched to Mecca’s possession on Tuesday. Bar officers and their representatives will seem earlier than Denver Division of Licensing and Shopper Safety officers on March 20 for the show-cause listening to.
