8 face drug charges after Selma strip club raid
JOE FISHER, WRAL NEWS .
>>> NEW INFORMATION THIS
MORNING ABOUT A LATE-NIGHT
RATED AT JOHNSON COUNTY STRIP
CLUB.
AGENTS A POLICE ARE THE
GENTLEMEN'S PLAYHOUSE NEAR
INTERSTATE 95 ON GRAND STREET
IN SELMA.
THAT'S WHERE WE ARE LIVE WITH
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARREST.
>> Reporter: WE JUST RECEIVED A
PRESS RELEASE FROM
INVESTIGATORS SAYING THAT EIGHT
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED,
DEALING WITH A TOTAL OF 100
CHARGES THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH
DRUG AND ALCOHOL RELATED TYPE
THINGS.
SIX OF THEM CHARGE ACTUALLY
WORKING AT THE STRIP CLUB, TWO
OF THOSE WHO RECHARGE WERE
CUSTOMERS.
I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THESE NEW
MUGSHOTS WE JUST RECEIVED IS
ALL.
A FEW OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN
CHARGED WE ARE STILL WAITING TO
GET THE OTHERS.
SO FAR WE WERE HERE LAST NIGHT,
WE SAW POLICE DEPARTMENT MAKE
ARRESTS.
POLICE A COMPLAINT THAT DATED
BACK TO MARCH, DEALING WITH
DRUG RELATED THINGS.
INVESTIGATORS WENT UNDERCOVER
WHICH LED TO THIS CRACKDOWN.
THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME THE
GENTLEMEN'S CLUB HAS BEEN IN
TROUBLE WITH THE LAW.
BACK IN 2013 UNDERCOVER
OPERATION ENDED INTO 32 ARREST.
SINCE THEN THERE BEEN NUMEROUS
OTHER CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS .
>> WE ARE NOT GOING TO ALLOW
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY TO GO TO
ESTABLISHMENTS LIKE THIS.
>> Reporter: THIS REPORT WILL
BE SENT UP TO THE ABC
COMMISSION.
THEY WILL THEN HAVE TO DECIDE
IF THEY WANT THIS STRIP CLUB TO
CONTINUE WITH THEIR ALCOHOL
LICENSE OR REVOKE IT OR SUSPEND
IT?