Saturday, March 10, 2007

Selling Apple Pie

What is this?  The 1920’s?

An off-duty Evansville police sergeant supplied bars with flasks filled with his own alcoholic concoction, delivered monthly in exchange for cash in envelopes marked “apple pie,” state revenue agents charged in a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Rock County Circuit Court.

William Fitters, 40, who resigned last week from the Evansville Police Department, is accused of two misdemeanors of selling intoxicating liquor without a license.

He admitted to state Department of Revenue investigators he cooked up the “Apple Pie” drink on his kitchen stove and sold it for $10 a bottle to the Level 8 Bar and the Evansville Bowl.

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Fitters told agents he had been selling about 24 bottles monthly, with a profit of about $3 per bottle. He bought clear grain alcohol - known by a brand name as the high alcohol content “Everclear” - at local liquor stores and made the “Apple Pie” at home.

“Apple Pie” is a common name for a drink made from ingredients that include cinnamon, apple cider and grain alcohol. It tastes and smells a little like fresh-baked apple pie.

In the complaint, a revenue agent is quoted asking Fitters, a veteran Evansville police officer, “whatever possessed him to do such a thing,” and Fitters responded that he had “just gone through a divorce and lost his house, car and all his money . . . he is so broke that he decided to make some cash.”

(3) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0810 hrs
Off-Duty

  1. I don’t drink, but that even sounds tasty to me.  Ok, I’d probably sniff it more than drink it.  grin

    Posted by Kate on March 10, 2007 at 1019 hrs


  2. But, it’s as American as Mom, baseball, and Apple Pie Everclear!

    Posted by slburri on March 10, 2007 at 1556 hrs


  3. I’m with Kate: I don’t drink, but it sounds tasty. But Everclear; you can run a camp stove with that stuff!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 10, 2007 at 1600 hrs


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