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shadowcat

Atlanta suburb

The owner of an Arlington strip club tried to hire a hitman to kill two city officials involved in trying to shut the bar down, the FBI said Tuesday.

Ryan Walker Grant, co-owner of Flashdancer, offered to pay $10,000 for each murder, an FBI agent wrote in a criminal complaint.

Flashdancer recently agreed to close for one year to settle a nuisance lawsuit filed by the city of Arlington and the Texas attorney general.

"They just jacked me for a year of business, and they're trying to jack me indefinitely," Grant was quoted as telling the supposed hitman, who was secretly cooperating with federal agents.

The FBI also said Grant requested "wetbacks" from Mexico to come to North Texas and commit the murders so they could quickly leave town.

The names of the city officials allegedly targeted were not released.