Ex-bar boss here is arrested on Ariz. sexual-abuse charges

The man in charge of Old City's McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon when it was sued for racial discrimination last year was arrested in Philadelphia Tuesday after being charged with sexually abusing workers at the bar he ran for the company in Arizona.

Harry Hayman, 42, was arrested at his house on New Street near 3rd, in Old City, about 9:30 a.m., police said.

A grand jury in Arizona indicted Hayman on Jan. 20 on three counts of sexual abuse, six counts of indecent exposure, three counts of public sexual indecency and eight counts of assault.

He allegedly exposed his genitals to male and female employees, according to the grand-jury report, and tried to kiss a female worker and put his hand down her pants.

A male worker, meanwhile, said that Hayman had grabbed his buttocks and dragged him by his tie, according to the grand-jury report.

Hayman reportedly ran a McFadden's Restaurant and Calico Jack's next to the arena where the NHL's Phoenix Coyotes play.

Sgt. Brent Coombs, a spokesman for Glendale, Ariz., police, said that the department received the complaints last April, but they couldn't get Hayman's cooperation during their investigation. Hayman was taken into custody in Philadelphia after Arizona officials called in the U.S. Marshals Service.

Hayman posted $15,000 bail yesterday and awaits an extradition hearing to Arizona, according to court records.

A woman who answered the phone at the McFadden's in Old City said Hayman "no longer works with us."

A manager at the McFadden's at Citizens Bank Park said Hayman "has not worked here . . . for a while."

Court documents filed in the local racial-bias lawsuit, which was settled out of court last year, listed Hayman as director of operations for McFadden's as recently as three months ago.

The bartender in that case cited a similar claim from a woman who said she had repeatedly complained about racial discrimination at a bar in Louisville, Ky., also run by Hayman.

In a deposition in that case, the plaintiff claimed that Hayman had told her that "we don't like a dark crowd in here" and that the East Coast Saloons' model was to attract hot girls or a predominantly white college crowd.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.