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Council upholds police recommendation to deny Mohammed Khan Class A alcohol license
Summary
The Shreveport City Council voted 7-0 to uphold police denial of Mohammed Khan’s application for a Class A alcohol license; Khan retains a Class B license but was denied the Class A requested to work at a liquor store because of repeated alcohol- and drug-related arrests in his record.
The Shreveport City Council upheld the police department’s recommendation to deny Mohammed Khan’s application for a Class A alcohol-license card, voting to sustain the denial by council motion.
Corporal (Detective) Glass Bradley of the Shreveport Police Department told the council that Khan had a long criminal-history record including multiple arrests for driving under the influence, controlled-substance offenses and other matters, and that the city code requires good character, record and reputation under the city’s licensing ordinance (cited in the hearing as section 10-66). Bradley said Khan had been arrested multiple times (including driving-while-intoxicated arrests in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2014 and controlled-substance arrests in 2006, 2013 and 2020) and had absconded from probation in DeSoto Parish.
Khan told the council he has worked in convenience and liquor stores for decades and said he had been sober and out of trouble since the most recent incidents he acknowledged. A family member and the store owner’s representative said the owner would rehire Khan if he obtained the Class A license.
Councilman Brooks moved to uphold SPD’s recommendation; Councilman Butcher seconded the motion. The clerk recorded the motion as passing unanimously by the seven council members present.
The council’s action leaves Khan with a Class B license (allowing service where alcohol is not the primary commodity) but denies the Class A card required to work in a retail liquor store where alcohol is the primary product. Staff and council members explained that Khan may reapply for the Class A license only after statutory or ordinance criteria for reapplication are met; the transcript records a staff comment that 10 years from completion of a referenced felony would be a reapplication milestone (the transcript indicated a 2016 conviction and discussed 10-year timing), but the council did not set a new reapplication date in the hearing.
Why it matters: The council applied the city’s licensing standards and police background review to deny a Class A card for employment in a liquor store; the decision preserves Khan’s Class B card but restricts employment in a retail liquor outlet that requires the higher license.
The transcript records the police’s detailed summary of arrest history and the council’s unanimous vote to uphold the denial.
