A popular Smith Mountain Lake bar faces a $25,000 fine or it may lose its ability to serve alcohol for up to a month.

The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board issued the sanctions Thursday against Mango's Bar & Grill, located in Bridgewater Plaza near Hales Ford Bridge. The decision, about which the ABC notified the media on Monday, comes less than a week after Franklin County supervisors voted to approve a noise ordinance inspired largely by residents complaining about loud music emanating from Mango's.

ABC agents last summer accused the bar of serving already intoxicated customers and allowing them to take alcoholic beverages outside designated areas. Of the 13 administrative charges against Mango's, the board ruled that 10 were substantiated. The other three were dismissed.

According to the ruling, which may be appealed, Mango's will lose its ability to serve alcoholic beverages for seven days, but can resume sales if it chooses to pay a $25,000 fine. If not, the prohibition on alcohol sales will last 30 days.

The bar has until June 19 to appeal. Mango's co-owner Ed Waters said he hadn't heard of the decision and had no comment until he consulted with attorneys.

The charges came out of a three-month investigation that started in May 2005 and was prompted largely by complaints from nearby residents.

According to the ABC board's decision, undercover agents visited Mango's on June 4, when they arrested two people for public drunkenness, including one man who "was unsteady on his feet and consuming from a Bud Ice beer bottle and a Miller Lite beer bottle, both of which were in his hand at one time."

Agents filed administrative charges against Mango's for allowing intoxicated people to loiter upon the premises and serving alcoholic beverages to intoxicated people.

Agent Mark Scott told the general manager that he blamed the type of entertainment hosted by Mango's, saying that certain types of music create "a whole lot of havoc." Scott went on to cite popular Roanoke band the Worx as a group that "draws the wrong crowd and entices the consumption of alcoholic beverages," according to the ABC board's decision.

Steve Prusak, who plays keyboards in the Worx, said he felt the band had been unfairly targeted by Scott.

"To me, the agent is out of his job description," Prusak said. "Telling a club owner what type of entertainment he can put in there? That's not his job. ... The reason this agent is concerned is because we bring in a capacity crowd. We don't bring in the wrong crowd."

On Aug. 6, the Worx was playing for about 600 people when more than 15 law enforcement agents arrived at Mango's. The raid yielded nine arrests -- seven for public intoxication, one for disorderly conduct and one for driving while intoxicated.

The ABC board's decision includes several anecdotes from that August raid from law enforcement officers:

n A man weighing between 420 and 450 pounds with alcohol on his breath grabbed one agent's badge, flipped it up and asked "Who the f--- do you think you are?"

n Police arrested a man who fought them after a woman told them he had come up to her vehicle and was yelling and cursing at her children.

n One woman, approached by a Mango's security officer, started swinging her beer bottle and yelling, "Fight! Fight!"

In October, a couple of months after the raid, 77 residents in two subdivisions across the cove from Mango's submitted a petition to the Franklin County Board of Supervisors, requesting a noise ordinance.

After research and an April public hearing, which largely focused on Mango's, the board voted 4-3 last week to pass an ordinance setting a daytime limit of 67 decibels and a nighttime limit of 62 decibels. A normal conversation is considered to be about 60 decibels, and the noise from an interstate highway is about 70 decibels.

Two other Roanoke restaurants have been disciplined by the ABC board this year. This month, the board suspended the alcohol license for Lowell Restaurant at 2328 Melrose Ave. for either 60 days, or 30 days with a $5,000 fine. An initial ruling in January had revoked the restaurant's license, but that penalty was modified after an appeal.

In January, the board fined Corned Beef & Co., located at 107 S. Jefferson St., $15,000 and suspended its license for five days.