Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio strip club, but charges dismissed

[webfact]

Stormy Daniels arrested in Ohio strip club, but charges dismissed

By Brendan O'Brien and Bernie Woodall

 

Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, the porn film star who said she had an affair with Donald Trump before he became U.S. president, is shown in this booking photo released by Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Columbus, Ohio, U.S., July 12, 2018. Courtesy Franklin County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS

 

(Reuters) - Stormy Daniels, the porn star who has said she had a sexual encounter with U.S. President Donald Trump, was arrested while performing at an Ohio strip club on Thursday, but the charges were dismissed and her lawyer called the arrest a politically motivated setup.

 

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was taken into custody in the early morning after being accused of touching three customers who were undercover vice detectives, police in the state capital Columbus said.

 

But the misdemeanour charges were dismissed hours later. Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said Daniels committed no crime because she did not perform regularly at the club, as required under the law.

 

Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said officers at the club missed that element of the law.

 

"The facts behind the charges and the behaviour witnessed by the vice officers are a matter of record, and the officers were well within their area of responsibility when taking enforcement action," Jacobs said in a statement. "Nevertheless, a mistake was made and I accept full responsibility."

 

The department will review the officers' motivation, Jacobs said, "to ensure that our core values and duty to serve our community to the best of our ability continue to be the basis for our actions."

 

Daniels' attorney, Michael Avenatti, said earlier on Twitter that the arrest was "a setup & politically motivated."

 

He welcomed Jacobs' statement but demanded a full and open investigation into the officers' conduct including their social media accounts, some of which he said were taken down on Thursday.

 

"Certain of these accounts appear to have been very pro-Trump. In the event it is discovered that my client was targeted & arrested because of our opposition to Mr. Trump, the resulting lawsuit & action will be swift and devastating," he tweeted.

 

Columbus police said earlier that the arrest of Daniels and two other dancers at Sirens Gentlemen's Club was part of a long-term investigation of alleged human trafficking, prostitution and other crimes at adult entertainment clubs in the city.

 

According to an arrest affidavit cited by the New York Times, Daniels was dancing topless at the club when she pressed patrons' faces into her chest, fondled the breasts of some women in the audience and performed similar acts on three police officers who were at the establishment.

 

Daniels, 39, was released on $6,000 bail on three misdemeanour charges of illegally operating a sexually oriented business related to knowingly touching a patron.

 

Daniels has filed two civil lawsuits against Trump, with whom she said she had a sexual encounter in 2006, a decade before he was elected president. One lawsuit seeks to get out of a non-disclosure agreement she signed the month before the 2016 election in exchange for $130,000 to keep the episode secret, while the other is for defamation. Trump has denied the affair.

 

Daniels has said Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen paid her the $130,000. Cohen has confirmed he made the payment. Daniels is also suing Cohen. In May, Trump said Daniels was paid to stop "false and extortionist accusations."

 

Prosecutors are investigating Cohen for possible crimes related to his business dealings, a source familiar with the investigation told Reuters in April. He has not been charged.

 

Daniels has been on tour since last winter, appearing at strip clubs across the United States, and was due to perform again at Sirens on Thursday night. After the charges were dismissed, Avenatti said Daniels would seek to perform at another club in Columbus on Thursday night.

 

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in MILWAUKEE and Bernie Woodall in FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.; Additional reporting by Heavey in WASHINGTON; Editing by Bernadette Baum, Marguerita Choy and Cynthia Osterman)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-13

[Chomper Higgot]

Text book harassment.

[worgeordie]

"being accused of touching three customers who were undercover vice detectives"

they seem to out to get her with 3 undercover detectives in the audience.politcaly

motivated,hell,yes.

regards Worgeordie

[Chomper Higgot]

Columbus City Attorney immediately filed for the charges to be dropped.

 

The judge hearing the case agreed -Charges dismissed.

 

Ie the cops set Daniels up and the City Attorney slapped the cops down.

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/stormy-daniels-arrested-strip-club-columbus.html

[zaphod reborn]

Franklin County might as well take out their checkbook and write a fat check to Michael Avenatti.  Slam dunk false arrest/deprivation of civil rights case.

[Silurian]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

According to an arrest affidavit cited by the New York Times, Daniels was dancing topless at the club when she pressed patrons' faces into her chest, fondled the breasts of some women in the audience and performed similar acts on three police officers who were at the establishment.

 

Daniels, 39, was released on $6,000 bail on three misdemeanour charges of illegally operating a sexually oriented business related to knowingly touching a patron.

 

Oh my gosh! Pence must be having a heart attack knowing such lewd behavior is allowed in his country. The archaic, ultra-conservative (rarely enforced) law just shows what MAGA really means to these people.

 

The Bizarre Ohio Law That Led to Stormy Daniels’s Arrest

 

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Known as the Community Defense Act, the law says that patrons of strip clubs cannot touch employees, and employees can’t entertain after midnight. (Weirdly, family members are an exception to the no-touching rule.) 

 

[Kinnock]

Considering that lawyers and PR experts will have sweated over every word in the statement, and no unnecessary words would be allowed due to the chances of misinterpretation, this part of the statement is very interesting ....

 

 

"The department will review the officers' motivation, Jacobs said, "to ensure that our core values and duty to serve our community to the best of our ability continue to be the basis for our actions."

[jadee]

It's amusing that the officers missed the details in the law, but my biggest surprize is that there were THREE vice officers in one club - presumably being paid with taxpayer's money - how common is that? Wouldn't one officer be sufficient? What's this news going to do to patronage of strip clubs once everyone knows that there could be three undercover vice officers in one club? 

[KhunBENQ]

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According to documents filed to the Franklin County Municipal Court, during Clifford’s performance she began “forcing the faces of the patrons into her chest and using her bare breasts to smack the patrons,” and “fondled” the breasts of women in the audience, including an undercover officer.

I am shocked

Not

Wasn't there an important person who said he could touch any woman everywhere?

[roquefort]

You couldn't make this stuff up!  Is there a Hollywood scriptwriter behind the Trump presidency?

 

 

[BritManToo]

Has nobody asked, who would want to see a 40 year old stripper, let alone be 'touched' by one?

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Has nobody asked, who would want to see a 40 year old stripper, let alone be 'touched' by one?

Just you.

[atyclb]

could the name of her tour tour "make america horny again" be politically motivated lol.

 

i bet she is boosting sales of lifesize japanese silicone love dolls 

[IAMHERE]

Good thing it wasn't the FBI; those boys can make political inspired charges stick.

[Srikcir]

At least the police didn't have to strip search her.

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, lionsincity said:

Trump didn't use a condom when he banged her.

apparently they don't make them that small.

1

He did wear a condom, but it slipped off and they had to send the British Cave Rescue team in to find it.

[Small Joke]

And with a lick of her lips, 

she undid all her clips, 

threw it all in the air, and everyone stared,

and as the last peice of clothing fell into the floor, 

the police came knocking at the door...

 

Poor Patricia was arrested 

And everyone detested

The manner in which she was exposed 

Later on in Court,  well everybody  thought,  a summer run in jail would be proposed.

But the the judge said 'Patricia,  or may I say, "Delicia",  the facts of this case lie before me...

Case Dismissed!

 

This girl, was in her working clothes!

 

 

[Mac98]

7 hours ago, jadee said:

It's amusing that the officers missed the details in the law, but my biggest surprize is that there were THREE vice officers in one club - presumably being paid with taxpayer's money - how common is that? Wouldn't one officer be sufficient? What's this news going to do to patronage of strip clubs once everyone knows that there could be three undercover vice officers in one club? 

They said it was part of an ongoing investigation. If so, then there would be multiple agencies involved, probably a van outside with an officer recording conversations, such as an offer of sex for money, and a field commander. They would operate two shifts a day, seven days a week. They did exactly this in Corona, CA., in response to reports of a country bar where a barmaid was said to have exposed a nipple when washing glasses. A 30-day investigation showed that if you sat on the right stool 16 hours a day, and we're vigilant to her every move, that you could catch a glimpse a total of three times. The bar was shut down for an extended period and the owner fined. The multi-agency investigation (local police, state Alcohol and Beverage Control, county sheriff),  likely ran $250,000 counting wages, overtime, court and prosecution costs.

[alocacoc]

If she need that urgent money, why she don't start a gofundme page? Or she could work as a post-op tranny on Pattaya.

Sent from a so called Smartphone using an App.

[atyclb]

3 hours ago, lionsincity said:

Trump didn't use a condom when he banged her.

 

apparently they don't make them that small.

 

you could have given him one of yours

[Tug]

Yeiks I wouldn’t touch that used mattress with Donald’s dick!but really just plain fishing on the republican side harassment pure and simple they are getting desperate after the spanking they received from that fbi guy they (tried) to roast yesterday