Talk about strip club fights....
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
COMANCHE COUNTY, Okla._A massive brawl involving 50 people outside of a Comanche County strip club last weekend also wreaked havoc for the business next door. Now, the Sheriff is stepping up the law enforcement presence in the area.
It's become almost a weekly occurrence at Sidewinders, near the Medicine Park exit off of I-44, and often the chaos spills over to the Love's gas station next door. This past weekend's fight was so bad the store was forced to briefly shut down.
The Love's convenience store, being just miles from four highways, is frequented by travelers at all hours of the day. With fights from Sidewinders spilling over nearly every weekend, the Sheriff is taking action.
"The safety of the people that work there and the safety of people coming in have to put up with that. We are going to try to have a unit out in that area to try and get rid of the problem of it spilling over on innocent people," said Sheriff Stradley.
The fights happen at all times of the night. Even past 4:00 a.m., and the Sheriff believes that's one of the biggest causes.
"It's one of the places in the county that stays open a little late. So when you have a place like that, you have a lot people start going out there and some of them are already on their way to getting drunk," said Sheriff Stradley.
As far as any cooperation from Sidewinders on helping out the situation, the Sheriff says there's been little to none.
"They're not really user friendly but were continuing to work on it," said Sheriff Stradley.
The report taken on Saturday says deputies saw several people leaving Sidewinders throw up gang signs and say they are in certain gangs. But the Sheriff doesn't believe there is actual gang activity happening at the club just yet.
"We understand that there are some gang bangers coming in and out of there and we will monitor that also," said Sheriff Stradley.
Both businesses were reached out to for a comment, Love's decided not to comment on the situation and Sidewinders never returned our phone calls.
As for that weekend brawl, only one man was arrested for public drunkenness. All the others were simply told to leave.
It's become almost a weekly occurrence at Sidewinders, near the Medicine Park exit off of I-44, and often the chaos spills over to the Love's gas station next door. This past weekend's fight was so bad the store was forced to briefly shut down.
The Love's convenience store, being just miles from four highways, is frequented by travelers at all hours of the day. With fights from Sidewinders spilling over nearly every weekend, the Sheriff is taking action.
"The safety of the people that work there and the safety of people coming in have to put up with that. We are going to try to have a unit out in that area to try and get rid of the problem of it spilling over on innocent people," said Sheriff Stradley.
The fights happen at all times of the night. Even past 4:00 a.m., and the Sheriff believes that's one of the biggest causes.
"It's one of the places in the county that stays open a little late. So when you have a place like that, you have a lot people start going out there and some of them are already on their way to getting drunk," said Sheriff Stradley.
As far as any cooperation from Sidewinders on helping out the situation, the Sheriff says there's been little to none.
"They're not really user friendly but were continuing to work on it," said Sheriff Stradley.
The report taken on Saturday says deputies saw several people leaving Sidewinders throw up gang signs and say they are in certain gangs. But the Sheriff doesn't believe there is actual gang activity happening at the club just yet.
"We understand that there are some gang bangers coming in and out of there and we will monitor that also," said Sheriff Stradley.
Both businesses were reached out to for a comment, Love's decided not to comment on the situation and Sidewinders never returned our phone calls.
As for that weekend brawl, only one man was arrested for public drunkenness. All the others were simply told to leave.
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