Scott Solomon

Siro's, the popular restaurant and bar within walking distance of Saratoga Race Course, is scheduled to reopen Thursday after shutting abruptly on the second day of the racing season last week when its executive chef was arrested as a fugitive from justice with multiple outstanding felony and misdemeanor warrants for fraud-related charges. The Times Union of Albany reported July 21 that Robert S. Barber Jr. was arrested at the Lincoln Avenue restaurant July 16 on initial charges of possession of a forged instrument, which was an allegedly fake Massachusetts driver's...

An owner of Siro's, the popular restaurant and bar within walking distance of Saratoga Race Course, was arrested May 6 on charges of forging insurance and liquor-license documents in an effort to get a city permit to open the business in the middle of the pandemic last summer. The Daily Gazette newspaper in New York's capitol region first broke the story Monday. Scott R. Solomon, 35, of Cohoes, turned himself in to face an arrest warrant last Thursday, the Gazette reported, adding that Saratoga Springs police afterward released him on...