Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit to pay strip club owners $2.95M to end suit
July 26, 2011 at 2:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDetroit to pay strip club owners $2.95M to end suit
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The lawsuit stems from a 2006 measure in which the panel voted 5-4 in 2006 to turn down the Zoo Bar’s license transfer. The vote came amid a crackdown on topless bars, but strip club officials testified in federal court that, before the vote, political consultant Sam Riddle wanted them to pay $25,000 for then-Councilwoman Monica Conyers’ vote.
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The bar’s owners planned to sell to a group of investors affiliated with Deja Vu, a Lansing-based national chain, who wanted to open a Hustler strip club. The bar on East Congress is now operating as a nightclub called Kingdom.
The Zoo Bar’s owners successfully challenged the city’s strip club rules in court, prompting another rewrite. Today’s settlement ends a pending federal suit that alleges the city took the club’s property illegally by denying the license transfer.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Ypsilanti Township takes first step in process to revoke Grove Road Dairy …
July 26, 2011 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… Having served in law enforcement for 20 years, I can tell you the damage that alcohol in combination with youth causes and how it wreaks havoc on communities,” he said. “We can debate the meaning of 12 months in a calendar year, but the fact remains someone sold alcohol to minors three times in a year and I am using common sense in making these decisions.”
Winters said after the meeting that he believes this is the first time the question over the meaning of a calendar year has been debated. He said there needs to be some clarification, but said the township is acting strictly in a advisory role to the LCC.
He added that no matter what the outcome, the township pursuing the case sends a message that it is ultimately a business owner’s responsibility to ensure there are no sales to minors and said there was a “pattern of defiance” from Hamati.
“I’m not buying the idea that he didn’t know what was going on,” Winters said. “It’s like the piano player in the house of prostitution claiming he doesn’t know what’s going on upstairs — he knows what’s going on.”
See the full article from “AnnArbor.com”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Detroit man charged in sex slavery case
July 26, 2011 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsAttorney General Bill Schuette on Monday announced that Sedrick Leman-Issac Mitchell is accused of human trafficking and charged with myriad felonies for allegedly forcing two girls to work as prostitutes in Detroit.
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Schuette said Mitchell enslaved two girls, ages 14 and 15. The 14-year-old was held captive in a house on Detroit’s east side for two months after Mitchell invited her to a party in July of last year, Schuette said. Mitchell is alleged to have put them to work as prostitutes, collecting money and punching and slapping them when they didn’t earn enough.
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The charges stem from an investigation by Michigan State Police and the FBI through the Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force. He faces several charges, which could land him in prison for life, including two counts of human trafficking, three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, racketeering, prostitution, felonious assault and felony firearm.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Attorney General’s new Human Trafficking Unit files 13 charges against man …
July 26, 2011 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe girls were forced to engage in prostitution, Schuette said. He said Mitchell took their earnings and physically assaulted them when they didn’t make enough money. He also alleges Mitchell sexually assaulted the girls on several occasions.
Mitchell was arrested Thursday in Mojave, California. The process has begun to extradite him. He is charged with the following:
· Two counts of Human Trafficking – Threats of Physical Harm Causing Injury (Involving Criminal Sexual Conduct), a felony punishable by life in prison;
· One count of Criminal Sexual Conduct – First Degree (Personal Injury), a felony punishable by life in prison;
· Two counts of Criminal Sexual Conduct – First Degree (Relationship), a felony punishable by life in prison;
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· Two counts of Prostitution/Pandering, a 20-year felony;
· Two counts of Prostitution – Accepting Earnings, a 20-year felony;
See the full article from “MLive.com”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: 1st Charges Filed Under Michigan’s New Human Trafficking Law
July 26, 2011 at 8:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsSedrick Leman-Isaac Mitchell, 32, of Detroit, is accused of human trafficking and other crimes after the Attorney Generals office alleged he enslaved two young girls, forcing them to engage in prostitution in Detroit. The charges result from an investigation by Michigan State Police and the FBI through the Southeast Michigan Crimes Against Children Task Force.
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Schuette said the victims were forced to engage in prostitution, with Mitchell allegedly collecting all of their earnings. When the girls did not earn enough money, it is alleged Mitchell would physically abuse the girls by slapping and punching them, Schuette said.
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Mitchell has been charged with two counts of human trafficking, one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct (relationship), one count of conducting criminal enterprises (racketeering), two counts of prostitution/pandering, two counts of prostitution — accepting earnings, one count of felonious assault, one count of felony firearm — second offense, and one count of felon in possession of firearm.
See the full article from “WDIV Detroit”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Detroit Pistons Links: Soon-to-be Pistons coach Lawrence Frank driven to succeed
July 25, 2011 at 2:48 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsThe Pistons are getting a spark plug of a coach in Lawrence Frank. Overseeing the Celtics’ defense, Frank’s voice could be heard shouting out instructions and assignments as he inched near midcourt at times (only to stomp back to his seat after the opposing team scored at the opposite end). Frank commanded immediate respect in the Boston locker room and replacing defensive guru Tom Thibodeau was no easy task. [ESPN Boston]
Former Piston Allen Iverson, who played in Turkey last season, is telling anyone who will listen that he wants back in the NBA. The 11-time All-Star says he won’t raise the same playing time gripes that he did in Detroit and then Memphis, where he declared that he was “not a reserve basketball player.” [The Point Forward]
Dennis Rodman’s 50th birthday party in Las Vegas was all class, complete with cigar promotions, gogo dancers, making it rain, and strip clubs. [SB Nation]
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Detroit Adult Entertainment: Abuse victims struggle with mental health problems
July 23, 2011 at 9:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsDrug addiction, alcoholism and male prostitution.
For John Swales, a sex abuse victim of Barry Glendinning, the fallout was almost instant after the priest was arrested.
“It was immediate – the lifestyle change from being a 10-year-old boy ringing the bell as an altar boy, to having absolutely no spiritual or emotional or mental values,” said Swales, 52, who was abused in the 1970s. “And yet plagued with the guilt of God.
“I shot off the charts. Immediately I was uncontrollable. The rules didn’t apply.”
The impact of sexual abuse by clergy is “profound” and almost always lasts a lifetime, says Carol Mayer, a Toronto therapist who has worked with hundreds of victims of predator priests.
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He also fell hard into a world of drugs and booze. Glendinning had introduced Swales to alcohol and tobacco. After the abuse ended, he embraced those crutches. He started hanging out with gang members. There was pot, hard drugs and prostitution.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Leave the bats at home plate
July 22, 2011 at 5:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsBut I am disturbed by the baseball bat comment.
It brings back memories of auto workers taking baseball bats to bash Japanese cars in the 1970s, venting their anger at consumers who chose to buy a car that they didn’t build. It brings back memories of the Louisville Slugger baseball bats that GM gave its plant managers and others, with “Beat Toyota” carved into them, back in the early 1990s.
And it brings back memories of Vincent Chin.
On June 19, 1982, Chin was at his bachelor party at a strip club in Highland Park, Mich., a city encircled by Detroit. A fight broke out after Ronald Ebens yelled, “It’s because of you little motherf***ers that we’re out of work!” Ebens apparently believed that Chin, of Chinese descent, was Japanese.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Brightening Blight In The Motor City
July 21, 2011 at 5:49 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No Comments… Revitalize Detroit”It’s a sunny afternoon in Detroit. Cars drive by with windows rolled down. Groups of people are chatting and laughing with one another on the sidewalk. On this particular block many of the buildings are covered with murals, some big, some small. On the side of one building are the words, “revitalize Detroit” in elaborate lettering. In addition to the paintings, colorful wood carvings of animals and butterflies line the street and hang from trees.
But this area didn’t always look so welcoming.
“It was rough,” says Chazz Miller. “I got car jacked around here in 1999.”
Seeing ChangeMiller is the guy behind Public Art Workz, a non-profit organization based in a working class neighborhood in Detroit called Old Redford. Miller’s mission is to revitalize Detroit by painting murals across the city. He’s only been painting here for a few years and he’s already seeing a difference.
“There would be so many people coming up behind you trying to sell you drugs, prostitution, it was just bad. The alleys smelled bad,” he says. “Now literally at night time we have kids playing in the alley.”
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Youth protest homelessness
July 20, 2011 at 7:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsLast Friday, members of the Campaign to End AIDS gathered outside Detroit City Hall to draw attention to the plight of homeless youth.
Alfredo Smith, a spokesman for the group, said dealing with homelessness among LGBT youth plays a big role in HIV prevention. “Youth are the future of the city,” he said. “Without housing, youth are more likely to drop out of school and more likely to be involved in risky behavior that can lead to new HIV infections.”
Smith said too often, young people are kicked out of home after they come out. “A lot of homeless youth go into prostitution and drug trafficking,” Smith said. “And if they need some place to live, they aren’t going to care if their ‘john’ tells them they don’t have to wear a condom.”
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