Groom, Bar Owners Get Into Gunfight

A federal drug agent’s bachelor party at a topless nightclub turned violent early Sunday when he got into a gunfight with bar managers over a $5 cover charge.

When it was over, bridegroom Pete Sinclair, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, was hospitalized in fair condition with two bullet wounds and Ritz Cabaret owner Stavros Fotinopoulos was hospitalized in poor condition after taking five bullets from Sinclair’s 9mm pistol.

Sinclair, 28, was aboard a rented bus with 40 members of his bachelor party when they made Ritz Cabaret their third or fourth stop of the night, police spokesman Fred King said.

When the party was told of the $5-per-person cover charge, the revelers began returning to the bus, King said. But Sinclair got into an argument with Fotinopoulos, 38, and manager, Lynn Clayton Turner, 39.