Nashville Strip Clubs: Police Padlock Luau Louie’s Hula Hut

23 09 2011

Police said they gave Luau Louie’s hundreds of chances, but other businesses won’t be so lucky.
“If you’re getting visited frequently by the police department, there’s a reason. And the police department is going to do as much as they can. They’re about enforcement, but they’re also about prevention, so I think they want to prevent visits like this. So I think it sends a message: shape up or ship out” said Tom Turner with Downtown Nashville Partnership.
The property owners said they cannot be responsible for what happens in the parking lot.
A court date on the padlock order is set for September 28 to decide what the next steps will be and if the bar will be allowed to reopen.
Police said this is the first downtown bar to be padlocked. Before it was only strip clubs.

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Nashville Adult Entertainment: CRIME WATCH: Clarksville man robbed while soliciting escort, police say

22 09 2011

The alleged victim, Allen Anders of 1388 Jenny Lane, initially told officers a woman came to his door and asked to use his phone. He said that when he turned around, two other women entered his home and forced him to the ground. Anders said he was then pepper-sprayed, held down with a weight bar and hit with a hammer, CPD spokesman Officer Jim Knoll said in a press release.
As one of the women held him down, the other two robbed him of $5,300 in cash and property, the release said.Upon further investigation, Detective Kevin Rushing found some of Anders’ claims to be inaccurate. According to Knoll, Anders actually called an escort service he found on Backpage.com. When the escort arrived at his home, she had two other women with her. The three women then attacked Anders and robbed him.

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Nashville Adult Entertainment: The missing piece of the US anti-human trafficking effort

19 09 2011

One scholar says that the problem of American youth pimping others, among many other crimes, is attributed to the lack of proper role models in their lives. Surely, youth need positive role models who will teach them that exploiting others are wrong and that their actions bear consequences. But, that is not enough. They also need changes in their mindsets that they can be anything but “a drug dealer, a thug, or a pimp in the hood.”

Research on former pimps reveals a glimpse of truth as to what might have caused someone like Prontiss to begin pimping young women. The research says that some people become pimps because it gives them a sense of power. One former pimp said he grew up with a mother who was exploited by her male partner. He said his mother’s boyfriend physically, verbally, and sexually abused his mother on a regular basis. He further stated that he became a pimp to become more powerful than his mother’s boyfriend and eventually to retaliate against him.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: Pairing of Jack White, ICP came with reservations

2 09 2011

They shared a Detroit connection, of course, and J said he remembered briefly meeting White at the airport about a year ago, and said their interaction was positive. He spoke about it with his team, and convinced everyone was on the same page, ICP headed down to Nashville with their producer, Mike E. Clark, and their longtime guitar player, Rich “Legs Diamond” Murrell.
They first met up with White at the recording studio at his Nashville home. Nashville duo JEFF the Brotherhood was there already working on music.
“We said our hellos and then we jumped right into it,” J says. “There was a little bit of socializing, but it was about business. I wish I could tell you we hit it off and we were hanging out and we went to the (strip club) that night, but it wasn’t like that.”

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Nashville Escorts: Attorney General Pushes to Regulate Dangerous Webpage

1 09 2011

NASHVILLE, Tenn.- It’s a website linked to prostitution, sex trafficking and murder. Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper says he’s going after the people behind it.
Cooper joined with 45 other states demanding Back-Page remove its “adult services” section. Authorities say especially heinous crimes originated there, including the October 2009 murder of Jiro Kanazawa, who was killed when answering a bogus ad.
Last September, police arrested Tyree Walker for advertising sexual services with two 17-year old girls, and just three days ago, Prontiss Houseworth was arrested for allegedly using violence to force four young women to work as prostitutes which he advertised through the site.
“There has been human trafficking and there is a problem in the state and this is just another step hopefully in the right direction to stop human trafficking and prostitution, especially in minors,” said Jeff Hill with the Attorney General’s office.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: WKRN, Nashville, Tennessee News, Weather and Sports |Golden: Miami ‘not …

31 08 2011

The NCAA said Vernon must sit six games and repay more than $1,200 because as a recruit he accepted things such as access to Shapiro’s suite at a Miami home game, drinks and cover charges at two different nightclubs. Shapiro, who told Yahoo Sports for a story published Aug. 16 that he provided benefits to 72 Miami players and recruits over an eight-year span, has even said that he made a $1,000 donation to Vernon’s high school booster club.
Armstrong must repay $788, the believed worth of his extra benefits, while Dye will pay back $738.
“The student-athletes involved have acknowledged receiving improper benefits and will now be responsible for restitution,” Eichorst said.
Forston, the NCAA said, received more than $400 in things such as “athletic equipment, meals, nightclub cover charges and entertainment at a gentleman’s club.” Spence received about $275 in benefits, Ojomo $240, Benjamin more than $150 and Harris more than $140.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: WKRN, Nashville, Tennessee News, Weather and Sports |NCAA: 8 Miami players …

31 08 2011

The NCAA said Vernon must sit six games and repay more than $1,200 because as a recruit he accepted things such as access to Shapiro’s suite at a Miami home game, drinks and cover charges at two different nightclubs. Shapiro, who told Yahoo Sports for a story published Aug. 16 that he provided benefits to 72 Miami players and recruits over an eight-year span, has even said that he made a $1,000 donation to Vernon’s high school booster club.
Armstrong must repay $788, the believed worth of his extra benefits, while Dye will pay back $738.
“The student-athletes involved have acknowledged receiving improper benefits and will now be responsible for restitution,” Eichorst said.
Forston, the NCAA said, received more than $400 in things such as “athletic equipment, meals, nightclub cover charges and entertainment at a gentleman’s club.” Spence received about $275 in benefits, Ojomo $240, Benjamin more than $150 and Harris more than $140.

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Nashville Strip Clubs: WKRN, Nashville, Tennessee News, Weather and Sports |Man gets probation in …

31 08 2011

By KEN RITTER
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) – A former bodyguard for NFL football player Adam “Pacman” Jones has been sentenced to a year of probation, community service and anger management counseling for his role in a Las Vegas strip club fracas and shooting that left three people wounded in February 2007.
Robert “Big Rob” Reid, 31, of Compton, Calif., was sentenced Thursday by Clark County District Court Judge Douglas Herndon after pleading an equivalent of no contest in December 2007 to misdemeanor conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, said his lawyer, Robert Langford.
“It closes the case for Mr. Reid,” Langford said Tuesday. He said Reid still works as a bodyguard and has been involved in the filming of a reality TV show featuring strippers touring on a bus.

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Nashville Escorts: Marathon Man

30 08 2011

When Barry Walker acquired the long-abandoned Marathon Motor Works auto factory for $52,000 in 1986, most people around Nashville, Tenn., thought he was throwing good money after bad.
Truth be told, “bad” barely begins to convey the fate that befell the site in the decades after the final touring cars and rumble-seat roadsters rolled off Marathon’s assembly line in 1914. Not only was the factory crumbling to dust after years of neglect, but its surrounding downtown neighborhood was a no man’s land plagued by poverty, violent crime and drug abuse.
“Marathon was nothing but bums and homeless back then–there were prostitutes all over the place,” Walker says. “Everyone said, ‘You’re crazy to do this. You’re going to die.’ So I bought a pistol–a .38 with a 6-inch barrel–and started cleaning house. I’d fire that gun every morning to clear everyone out of here. I did some crazy stuff, man.”

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Nashville Escorts: WKRN, Nashville, Tennessee News, Weather and Sports |NCAA is 5 months into …

26 08 2011

NCAA is 5 months into Miami investigation
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By STEVEN WINE
AP Sports Writer
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) – With investigators five months into checking allegations that a Ponzi scheme artist spent freely on University of Miami athletes, the NCAA president said Wednesday that if the claims are confirmed they show the need for “fundamental change” in college sports.
Former Hurricanes booster Nevin Shapiro, now serving 20 years in federal prison, claims he provided players with cash, prostitutes, cars and other gifts from 2002 to 2010. Shapiro told Yahoo Sports that 72 football players and other athletes at Miami received improper benefits from him in the past decade.
“If the assertions are true, the alleged conduct at the University of Miami is an illustration of the need for serious and fundamental change in many critical aspects of college sports,” NCAA president Mark Emmert said in a statement.

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