Strip Club Raids

The weekend after 9-11 I was spending a Saturday night at my favorite place when around midnight about 2 dozen officers in full swat gear carrying automatic weapons came storming in. They rounded everyone up and assembled them on the main floor. Dancers on one side customers on the other. They then brought in 2 laptop computers and set them up on the bar. Some female officers were brought in and took the dancers one at a time to the dressing room to get some clothes and id. Then two at a time we were sent up to the bar asked to produce id and it was checked via their computers. If you didn't have proper id or didn't check out you were cuffed and arrested. If you checked out you were given the choice to leave or stay until they were done. Since it was late I decided to leave. I was escorted to the coat check room and allowed to get my coat then escorted to the valet parking booth handed my keys and was told to proceed straight out the door to my vehicle. About half way home it dawned on me that I had been running a tab which I had not paid for. The next time in the place I mentioned it to the manager and he said forget about it the night was on them and he apologized that I had to go through all that.

I can't say for certain but my impression is that they were some kind of Federal officers and not local. They were dressed in all black with no visible badges or markings. The bar is located in a small suburb and I don't think that their entire police force is that big. Also they were to well equipped for local police plus they didn't seem concerned with any vice type activities. Since another nearby suburb has the largest Arab population outside the middle east I believe they were looking for specific people who were suspected to be terrorist supporters or sympathizers. I never asked and figured it was a good time to keep my mouth shut since anyone who gave them any kind of hard time ended up cuffed and face down on the floor. Probably not exactly what your looking for but it did happen in a strip club.

Yes. A tough detective was unhappy that I didn't flee along with everyone else. He advised that it would be a good idea to do so immediately. Of course, I was compliant.

Here is a link of pictures when Exotic Pearl in Columbus, OH was raided

http://newstomeblog.blogspot.com/2008/08…

It has pictures of the dancers and owner being arrested along with a few other pictures. This was one of the lower end strip clubs so I am surprised to hear about your upscale club being raided.

Lane,

I was in Treasures a while ago, and when LE came in, the music stopped and the lighting increased. It appeared to be an "inspection" rather than a raid.

I have told this story many times over the years. Art College asked me to keep repeating it,so here goes.

I was in the Memphis Platinum Plus about 7 years ago. This is probably the most raided club ever. 5 of them came in dressed like bikers. They made a quick sweep of the main room and then headed for the couch room. There is a curtain that separates the two room and they pulled them closed. I didn't know it was bust until the DJ announced that the VIP room was closed temporarily and until it was reopened drinks were 2 for 1.I lot of guys left thinking that, that was it for the night. I was from out town, so I stayed. I had no place better to go. 90 minutes later the curtains opened and they left. The 30 or so dancers and customers that got caught back there all received citations. I don't believe that any one got arrested.

Then I hooked up with Angel. She was cute and petite and was wearing a pink pixie dress. We agreed on 2 for $40 and went to the back room. It was almost deserted. Before we started she asked "what my rules were?" I replied that I didn't have any and asked her what"what hers were?" She said that she didn't have any either. Guess what was under that little pink dress? nothing! Not a stitch.We started another 2 fer set and she starting giving me a bare handed HJ. Finally I asked her if her had was getting tired? She replied yes and her face went down in my lap.She came up smiling and swallowed. No tip was asked for. to this day, I will never forget getting a BBBJ and hour after a vice raid.

To me it sounds like the citizens of Texas looking for places to cut the budget need to start looking at what departments seem to have extra time and possibly manpower or funds. The police raiding clubs right now? Seems like a good place to cut funds in my opinion. We need to help point out areas to state legislators where they can cut their budgets if they can't see the obvious. I seriously doubt that many serious crimes are being committed in strip clubs. I guess a few less people are clearly seeing nipples but I don't recall a nipple ever hurting anyone. Some people actually go to strip clubs to look at nipples and tits.

This is a beautiful young woman here ...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OIqJR5E2xvw/SK…

They didn't really need to hand-cuff those women in the back of the cruiser, did they?

Anyway: strip-club raids nearly always come about on the basis of some motivation among law-enforcement, other than that of, reducing strip-clubs in the neighborhood. They want to crack down on the drug exchanges going on. Or on the under-age prostitution. Or on the money laundering. Or they think there's a terrorist cell. Or it's election time and they some sheriff wants to look "tough on crime." Or the owner failed to pay off the liquor control board. Or the mayor's son wanted to open a rival club across the street. Or the automobile dealerships needed to widen their next-door lot. Or a detective's ex-wife started stripping again in order to make some money after he stopped paying alimony and she pissed him off by taking him to court over it. Or ...