Eatery owner fined for barring disabled woman
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The owner of a North Hollywood restaurant has been sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $2,700 fine after refusing to allow a disabled woman and her service dog into the
eatery, authorities said. Van Nuys Municipal Judge Michael Knight sentenced Pogos Echuryan, 44, owner of Tasty Burger, 12525 Vanowen St., after a jury found Echuryan guilty of one
misdemeanor count of illegally denying entry to a public place, said Mike Qualls, a spokesman for the city attorney’s office. Echuryan refused to allow the 44-year-old Lancaster woman into
the restaurant with her service dog last January. The woman, a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, called police. Police explained to Echuryan that the woman had a right to enter the
restaurant with the Rottweiler, but the owner refused to allow both the woman and the dog inside, authorities said. MORE TO READ