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Ashvegas reader asks: Whatever happened to this story?

Jason Sandford April 2, 2009

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

A loyal Ashvegas reader asked me recently if I had any follow-up information on the story below, which WLOS reported a couple of years ago. Does anybody know what happened in the aftermath?

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Canton attack
The craziest story of the day was WLOSer Holly Headache’s story about a pub owner in Canton who told police that some guys broke into his place at 81 Main Street early Monday morning, duct-taped him to a chair, poured a flammable liquid around the place and tried to light the place on fire.

The victim was Arun Krishnan, who has run the place for a few years. Police told Holly people have tried to break in there before, and Krishnan had taken to sleeping in his restaurant to protect it. Krishnan’s friends told Holly that the attack was a hate crime. The attackers were making comments about the color of the victim’s skin and making other racial slurs, Holly said.

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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2 Comments

WR April 7, 2009

That place was a shithole. I went there with some friends once got awful servcie and just ended up throwing some money on the table and leaving because we could never get a waitress to bring us our bill.

I think I saw that something else is going to be opening up there or maybe just recently opened.

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Chad Nesbitt April 2, 2009

When I was in the bar business 2 years ago, there were four guys that used to come into the bar that said they put up the money for Arun Krishnan to be in business. These guys were all employees of the paper plant. Arun came in with them on pool tournament nights and played pool.

Aruns pub was nice and had good food. But my old customers said they had heard something fishy had happened the night of the alleged break in.
Kind of like the Richmond Hill Inn situation – there was a lot of money owed and involved.

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