City wants to shut down club.

Club update:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The body of a man found inside a Jacksonville strip club Sunday night will undergo an autopsy Monday to determine how he died.

A security guard called 911 to report smoke in the building. Sgt. Edwin Cayenne with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that firefighters found the body at Mascaras Gentleman’s Club on Southside Boulevard about 10:10 p.m.

It’s not clear why the man was in the building or who he was. Mascaras was closed at the time of the fire, according to Cayenne.

Investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are assisting in the case. The ATF typically assists in fire investigations that involve a business, loss of life and where the cause is unclear or involves explosives.

Operations at Mascaras were already on thin ice and under close scrutiny after City Council approved a bill in September to formally request an investigation into the Gentlemen’s Club.

It was always a sketchy club. I suspect that police care a lot less about the supposed prostitution and drugs than they do about the shootings and bodies.

Also it's amazing how fire-prone small dive strip clubs are here in J'ville, especially when they are losing money or at risk of being closed down. This is the second dive club to catch fire this year. What are the odds?

You can't pass an ordinance which only effects one business.

You can order it closed as a public nuisance, if you can document the need to a court.

SJG

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Club now closed.

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