Archive for October, 2009

Tampa Strip Clubs: Ex-Judge Stringer Disbarred In Stripper Scandal

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Posted on Friday, 16 of October , 2009 at 7:22 pm
TAMPA, FLA—In August, former appeals court judge Thomas E. Stringer Sr. pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud charges.
This week, the Florida Supreme Court disbarred him for the next five years.
Stringer, 65, admitted lying on the loan application he had submitted to obtain a $350,000 mortgage for a house in Hawaii he bought with a stripper. Stringer had stated on the loan application that none of the money being used for the down payment was borrowed when in fact he had obtained the cash the stripper, Christy Yamanaka.
Stringer, who formerly sat on the Second District Court of Appeals until he resigned in February, was formally charged in July under a criminal complaint filed  in the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida at Tampa.  He was charged with executing or attempting to execute a scheme to obtain money, assets or property from a financial institution by means of false or fraudulent pretenses or representations.

See the full article from “North Country Gazette”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Mom who shot man she thought abused her daughter is ready for prison

Friday, October 16th, 2009

She grew up in Tampa with three siblings and a single mom who struggled to provide. She dropped out of school after eighth grade. As a young teenager, she started using marijuana, then alcohol, then pills. By the time she was 15, Neeley had been everywhere from California to New York to New Orleans, hitching rides in the cars and truck beds of strangers.
“I always ran,” she said recently. “It wasn’t until years of being sober that I realized you take the same person with you.”
Once, she said, a guy in a four-wheel-drive truck picked her up on Florida Avenue in Tampa, gave her beer, drove her to Morris Bridge Road and raped her. Then he dropped her at her boyfriend’s house.
She worked as a stripper and a prostitute and has a history of minor arrests from disorderly conduct to DUI.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Fla. Supreme Court Disbars Former Appeals Judge

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Published: Thu, October 15, 2009 – 12:31 pm CST Last Updated: Thu, October 15, 2009 – 1:14 pm CST
Tampa, Florida – The Florida Supreme Court has disbarred a former judge whose esteemed legal career ended amid accusations about his involvement with a stripper.
According to an order entered Thursday, Thomas E. Stringer has been disbarred for the next five years. The former appeals court judge resigned in February after a stripper claimed he helped her evade creditors by putting her money in his bank accounts.
The Judicial Qualifications Commission dropped its ethics complaint after he stepped down.
In August, Stringer pleaded guilty to bank fraud. Prosecutors say Stringer falsified his mortgage application for a home in Hawaii. He had listed himself as the sole owner, even though he was jointly investing in the house with the exotic dancer.

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Tampa Adult Entertainment: Artist: Misunderstanding caused mural ban

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

City commissioners approved the ban by a 4-1 vote Monday.
“We went through the proper channels and did everything we were supposed to do,” Emory said of the mural’s creation. “The offending area in the mural was part of an armchair, nothing more. But when it was pointed out to me, I had it painted over immediately.”
Hannas Antiques owner Edward Haynes said Tuesday he was irked by the controversy.
“If the city was so interested in the moral character of the city, why don’t they do something about the prostitutes soliciting on the city streets or the bums sleeping in vacant lots at night? I’m all for decency,” he said. “I have a family too. But let’s not get so upset and misplace our energy when it is needed elsewhere.”

See the full article from “United Press International”

Tampa Escorts: Mural miff — was it a sexual organ or an armrest?

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

The law was sparked by Commissioner Mike Sparkman, who said he was alarmed over the recent mural.
The mural, something akin to Norman Rockwell “April Fools” piece, has since been altered. But Blake Emory, who helped create the mural, couldn’t understand all the fuss. He said he was surprised an armrest was apparently mistaken for a sex organ.
Edward Haynes, the owner of Hannas Antiques, who paid for the controversial mural said, “If the city was so interested in the moral character of the city why don’t they do something about the prostitutes soliciting on the city streets, or the bums sleeping in vacant lots at night? I’m all for decency. I have a family too. But let’s not get so upset and misplace our energy when it is needed elsewhere.”

See the full article from “Sun-Sentinel.com”

Tampa Escorts: Deputies: Man lured women at bus stops

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

But Hillsborough County sheriff’s investigators say Audrerto Morales wasn’t finished. For days, they say the 37-year-old circled area bus stops looking for young women to pick up.
The sheriff’s office said another woman was battered before getting away.
Deputy Larry McKinnon said they knew they had a bus stop stalker they needed to catch.
“We were right on this guy’s tail for three solid days and that’s how we discovered what his patterns were and from that point we put the bait in place and he bit,” McKinnon said.
Detectives set up a sting and said Morales rolled up and tried to pick up an undercover detective he believed was a 16-year-old girl.
He offered her drugs and alcohol and 30 dollars to have sex, according to investigators.
Morales was arrested on charges of procuring a minor for prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, interference in child custody and battery.

See the full article from “MyFox Tampa Bay”

Tampa Escorts: Detectives suspect man of luring women into truck, attacking them

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Audrerto Morales, 37, was charged with charged with battery, procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution, interference with custody, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to jail records.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”

Tampa Strip Clubs: Man shot at strip club

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Man shot at strip club
PINELLAS PARK A Clearwater man was shot in the leg during an argument at the Bottoms Up Club, 8804 66th St. N. just after 2 a.m. on Oct. 12.
According to a report from the Pinellas County Sheriffs office, Joslyn Shaw, 28, and another man were arguing in the parking lot of the club when the unidentified male reportedly began shooting at Shaw, striking him once in the right calf. Deputies said there may have been as many as five shots fired.
Shaw was taken by others to Bayfront Medical Center where he was treated and released.
Deputies had just arrived at the club in response to another fight elsewhere on the property when the shots occurred.
The suspect was described as a black male with long dreadlocks who was last seen wearing a white shirt.

See the full article from “Tampa Bay Newspapers”

Tampa Adult Entertainment: Seffner man charged in teen prostitution sting

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Seffner man charged in teen prostitution sting
TBO.com
Published: October 13, 2009
Updated: 40 min. ago
TAMPA – Investigators had done enough investigating to bring on the undercover work.
They had information that Audrerto Morales of Seffner was driving a white pickup and cruising to bus stops around the county encouraging women to get in his vehicle.
On Oct. 6, sheriff’s detectives learned the identity of the man after he was accused of battering a woman who had accepted a ride. Tampa police also provided information in another case where a suspect battered a 14-year-old girl who accepted a ride.
On Monday morning, the sheriff’s office placed an undercover detective at a bus stop near Morales’ job site around Fowler Avenue and 56th Street.

Charges against Morales include procuring a minor for prostitution, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and interference with child custody.

See the full article from “Tampa Tribune”

Tampa Escorts: Pickup driver faces sex charge, deputies seek other victims

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies say they have charged a Seffner man who tried to pick up an undercover detective posing as a teenage girl. They also want women who may have been approached by a man at a bus stop to come forward.
Audrerto Morales, 37, was already under surveillance when they sent an undercover detective to wait at a bus stop near his job.
Morales, of 309 Cactus Road, pulled up to a bus stop at Fowler Avenue and N 56th Street in his pickup truck and tried to lure the detective into the truck by offering drugs and alcohol, , the Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday.
When the detective said she was only 16 and didn’t want a ride, Morales offered her $30 for sex, the agency said.
Deputies arrested him without incident.
Morales was charged with procuring a person under age 18 for prostitution, interference with custody, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He was released Monday on $10,500 bail.

See the full article from “Tampabay.com”