New Hampshire - Police and town officials have filed a petition with the Liquor Commission to the Zone Entertainment Complex closed. Police have been at odds with the bar ever since members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club started frequenting it.

The commission held a hearing on the petition Thursday and will issue a decision within the next 15 business days. In the petition the police are reffered to as "the town" although other businesses and residents started their own petition supporting the nightclub.

Police claim that there have been constant trouble there including bar fights. The trouble came to a head on August 21 when a member of the Outlaws motorcycle club and several members of the Hells Angels got into a fight in the parking lot and shots were fired.

Police Chief Richard Gendron said he had several meetings with Daigneault before and after the Aug. 21 shooting. “I told him that I view the Hells Angels as organized crime,” Gendron said, adding later: “I told him something big is going to happen here.”

There is no record of police correspondence to Daigneault detailing issues with the Zone other than a warning, or any record with the Liquor Commission of problems there.

AS of the shooting, it is believed that someone who worked security at the Zone contacted a member of the Hells Angels after a member of the Outlaws had come into the bar. A member of the Hells Angels then arrived at the bar and escorted the man outside, where he was jumped by about six people according to witnesses. Shots were then fired, wounding two people. One man was shot in the hand, but refused to be taken to the hospital. Another man was later taken to a Boston hospital where part of his left leg was amputated.

Daigneault said he has worked hard to clean up the bar and keep it a family-oriented place.

Only a small percentage, about 25, of the bar’s patrons belonged to motorcycle clubs or were Hells Angels, Daigneault told the three-member liquor commission. Their appearance at the bar was gradual, he said.

Daigneault allowed the group to hold a fund-raiser for a child with leukemia. After the police expressed concerns about the presence of motorcycle clubs at the bar, he told motorcyclists that he couldn’t allow them to hold fund-raisers, he said.

After that, fewer bikers hung out at the bar, he said. Employees never had to escort motorcyclists out of the bar and Daigneault was under the impression that everything was all right. “They didn’t make any trouble,” he said.

Daigneault also posted signs that motorcycles were not allowed on the sidewalk and patches, colors and other symbols that could be associated with clubs where not allowed.

Thursday was the first time the commission has ever held a hearing on a petition to revoke a liquor license.