Detroit Strip Clubs: Cop alleges dancer slaying coverup
October 23, 2009 at 12:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsYatooma said that Parra gave the same testimony to his office today.
Its more of the horrifying same, Yatooma said. Its memorialized as evidence. What our witnesses are saying, they are saying under oath.
Parra gave the testimony to attorney Mike Stefani on Sept. 3 in a separate lawsuit brought by Officer Ira Todd, who was kicked out of the task force after he claims he established a link between alleged hit man Vincent Smothers and a reputed Kentucky drug dealer who boasted to cops that he had close ties to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The Tamara Greene case came up during Parras deposition with Stefani. Greene, nicknamed Strawberry, was a stripper who was shot and killed April 30, 2003, in a west side Detroit drive-by killing. Her murder remains unsolved.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cox Asked about Alleged Manoogian Party
October 23, 2009 at 12:01 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCox Asked about Alleged Manoogian Party
Updated: Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 4:53 PM EDTPublished : Thursday, 22 Oct 2009, 4:41 PM EDT
The attorney representing the family of Tamara Greene is asking more questions about how the stripper’s murder was investigated.
Now, Norman Yatooma is questioning Detroit Police Officer Alex Parra under oath about a possible conspiracy to block attempts to solve the crime.
Greene is rumored to have danced at a never-proven party at the Manoogian Mansion and to have been assaulted there by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s wife, Carlita.
Yatooma is representing Greene’s family in a lawsuit, saying Kwame Kilpatrick and others blocked the investigation. Kilpatrick denies there was a party, and Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has said accounts of a party were nothing more than urban legend.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Cop gives testimony to lawyer for Greene’s family
October 22, 2009 at 6:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsYatooma said that Parra gave the same testimony to his office today.
Its more of the horrifying same, Yatooma said. Its memorialized as evidence. What our witnesses are saying, they are saying under oath.
Parra gave the testimony to attorney Mike Stefani on Sept. 3 in a separate lawsuit brought by Officer Ira Todd, who was kicked out of the task force after he claims he established a link between alleged hit man Vincent Smothers and a reputed Kentucky drug dealer who boasted to cops that he had close ties to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The Tamara Greene case came up during Parras deposition with Stefani. Greene, nicknamed Strawberry, was a stripper who was shot and killed April 30, 2003, in a west side Detroit drive-by killing. Her murder remains unsolved.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Ministers to protest new strip club
October 22, 2009 at 6:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsA group of ministers are planning a peaceful protest in a church across from the soon-to-be-opened Larry Flynts Hustler Club in Lincoln Park.
Pastor Frank Julian of Faith Christian Assembly on West Outer Drive in Melvindale, across from the club, says they plan to counter the bright lights on the strip club with their own light show when it opens Oct. 30.
We cant do it every night like they do, he said. But we want to have our own opening night when they do.
The ministers will also be accepting donations for turkeys that they give out during Thanksgiving.
Were trying to let our good work shine, Julian said. Were saying Larry Flynt is not more powerful than God. It appears like he won. But were not quitting.
The $4.2-million Hustler club is at John A. Papalas Drive and Outer Drive. Its liquor license was recently approved after a federal judge forced Lincoln Park city council members to enforce a previous agreement.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Just like dad, Blackwell lives with controversy
October 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… This is not a humiliating moment,” Blackwell said later under the portrait of his father.
“It’s kind of like a dream. Surreal. It was kind of warm for me to come into a place named after my dad rather than a place that was cold and I didn’t know.”
Highland Park was once known as “the city of trees.” And in the case of the Blackwells, one should remember that the apple never falls far.
Robert Blackwell was a man of large appetites. Weighing nearly 300 pounds, Big Bob served four terms as mayor between the ’60s and ’80s. He preferred sharp ties and sharkskin suits and famously hosted poker parties in the old City Hall while conducting city business in a strip bar called the Tender Trap next door.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Charges hit man named Highland Park’s savior
October 22, 2009 at 6:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… This is not a humiliating moment,” Blackwell said later under the portrait of his father.
“It’s kind of like a dream. Surreal. It was kind of warm for me to come into a place named after my dad rather than a place that was cold and I didn’t know.”
Highland Park was once known as “the city of trees.” And in the case of the Blackwells, one should remember that the apple never falls far.
Robert Blackwell was a man of large appetites. Weighing nearly 300 pounds, Big Bob served four terms as mayor between the ’60s and ’80s. He preferred sharp ties and sharkskin suits and famously hosted poker parties in the old City Hall while conducting city business in a strip bar called the Tender Trap next door.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Nolan Finley
October 22, 2009 at 2:25 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… I fell into the trap of making my assumptions based on what I’d been reading about Detroit,” he says. “I expected nothing but empty storefronts and abandonment. But the area as a whole didn’t look despairing at all. The hardship was surprisingly well masked.”
Schiavone can be forgiven for negatively prejudging Detroit. The barrage of dispatches that have appeared in the national media overwhelmingly portray Detroit as a post-apocalyptic setting whose people are desperate to get out. Here’s a sampling of what they’re saying about us:
• “On the adjacent business streets, commercial activity is so palpably absent you’d think a neutron bomb had been detonated.” — Time
• “A city and industry that together played a central role in the rise of the black middle class … is being destroyed.” — New York Times
• “For most ordinary folks with families, children and regular jobs, living with rats, fires, garbage, druggists, prostitutes and weirdos is simply too big a price to pay.” — Forbes
Detroit Strip Clubs: Reward Offered in Fatal Beating Case
October 22, 2009 at 12:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsReward Offered in Fatal Beating Case
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 10:26 PM EDTPublished : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 10:26 PM EDT
A 26-year-old man is killed outside a Detroit strip bar. There were several witnesses to this deadly attack, but more than two and half years later, the killer remains at large.
Crime Stoppers is now offering a reward to anyone who can provide information that will lead to an arrest. Meanwhile, Stephen Clark’s family is praying that police will solve this terrible tragedy.
He came to celebrate a friend’s birthday at the All Star Lounge at Eight Mile and Hubble in northwest Detroit. But as the father of three was leaving the club, he was fatally beaten and left to die in the street.
Stephen Clark was driving a General Motors van and leaving the All Star Lounge at 2:20 a.m. on Friday, January 12, 2007.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Couple gets married in strip club
October 21, 2009 at 1:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsCouple gets married in strip club
Manager: Venue filling a need in marketplace
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 9:10 AM EDTPublished : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 9:08 AM EDT
A British couple has become the first in the country to get married at a strip club.
The Metro reports that Phil Wharam, 50, and his bride Lynfa Lawson, 46, said “I do” before 120 guests at Katz Gentleman Club in Basildon, Essex, in the UK.
“We are just making use of our very good facilities,” manager Dean Kayne told the Metro.
The Sun writes that Katz applied for license to hold weddings at its venue in August after Wharam and Lawson fell in love there. Kayne said he believes he’s filling a need in the marketplace.
“What we are trying to do here is change people’s blinkered view of our establishment,” he said.
Detroit Escorts: Sting targets escort service prostitutes
October 21, 2009 at 1:49 am | In Detroit escorts | No CommentsArrested Friday night on one count each of misdemeanor prostitution in connection with the operation were Jody Michelle McKinley, 41, of Gulfport; Shasta Jeanneanc Crowe, 21, of Bay St. Louis; and Shatarra Monique Rodriguez, 26, and Christina Marie Wilkins, 22, both of Biloxi.Peterson said Timothy Daniel McAllister, 26, of Gulfport, and Billy Warren Hewett, 21, of Vancleave were charged with one count each of misdemeanor aiding in prostitution. He said the two men allegedly served as bodyguards for the women.“Sometimes, you’ll have the bodyguards bring them to the rooms,” Peterson said. “They (Hewett and McAllister) were there just to drive them, make sure they did their job and drive them back.”Peterson said the alleged prostitutes are called on to go wherever a customer wants them.“They’ll go to local hotels,” he said. “They’ll come to your house. Anywhere you want them, they will go. It’s an out-call service so they only come to you. You never go to them.”In order to set a date with the women, Peterson said, som …
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