Ex-bartender settles drug case, looks to move on with his life
Officers prepare to serve a warrant at Zingale’s former residence. Photo by Howard Seeb It’s been a tumultuous six weeks for Blake Zingale. And now he is ready to restart his life. Zingale, a former bartender at the Standing Room on Hermosa Ave., was arrested Sept. 24 following a sting operation conducted by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. According to records from the investigation, two undercover agents, posing as customers, entered the bar multiple times to arrange purchase of cocaine from Zingale. Zingale pleaded no contest to one count of sale of a controlled substance in Torrance Superior Court on Oct. 27, according to his attorney William Ringgold. Under the terms of the plea, Zingale will perform 90 days worth of community service, and serve three years of formal probation. At the end of that three-year period, Zingale will be eligible to petition the court to reduce the charges to a misdemeanor. With the case settled, Zingale is eager to move beyond the mistake he made, and restore his name in the town he calls home. “I accept full responsibility for what I did,” Zingale said. “In no way, shape or form am I trying to deny that. But I grew up here…
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