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Strippers arrested at former commission candidate’s bar
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HAMILTON — Police here arrested five women early this morning, Feb. 24, at a local nightclub, and issued a summons on a former candidate for Butler County commission.
The Hamilton Police Department’s vice unit conducted an undercover operation late last night at V’s Nightclub, 1483 Millville Ave., after receiving tips the business was planning to offer erotic dancers to patrons, according to a department news release.
Posing as customers, detectives said they saw dancers wearing little or no clothing, offering erotic dances for $5 and touching patrons inappropriately, according to the release. Detectives also said they observed Eryka Huckins, a 20-year-old female from Cincinnati who was later arrested, expose her breasts and allow dancers to touch them.
Police said the nightclub touted it would have dancers from eXposed, a company that offers for-hire male and female dancers. Police said they did not know the business location of eXposed, but a company by that name operates out of Fort Wayne, Ind.
In addition to the dancers and customers, police said they issued a misdemeanor summons to bar manager Rawnica Dillingham for not having an area clearly defined and separate from the patrons area, according to the news release.
Dillingham, who was defeated during the March 2008 Primary by incumbent Charles Furmon, stumped on the slogan “The Real Republican.” She is also the executive director of the nonprofit Mental Health Matters.
Ann Behnfeldt, a 38-year-old from Pettisville, Ohio, Mary Leonard, a 23-year-old from Toledo, Dawn Saunders, a 29-year-old from Hunington, Ind., Amanda Moore, a 27-year-old from Perrysburg, Ohio, as well as Huckins were arrested for violating the city’s adult business regulations, all of which are first-degree misdemeanors. Moore and Saunders received additional related misdemeanor citations.
This story will be updated when more information becomes available.
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By Sarah
February 24, 2009 10:29 AM | Link to this
This nightclub should be shut down for good. Someone is going to end up badly hurt or even worse, killed at that place. They have no kind of real crowd control and could care less about what happens in the parking lot, as long as its not inside their bar. Rawnica Dillingham should be ashamed of herself, and definately shouldnt consider herself a good public figure
By null
February 24, 2009 2:45 PM | Link to this
Yes, its a shame that respectable businesses in Hamilton can’t seem to be successful; I guess the only people willing to spend money are the trashy ones you see frequenting places like this. What a joke!
By Leonard
February 24, 2009 9:33 PM | Link to this
I don’t see this as being any worse than the living arrangements of Don Dixon. Where is everyones morals?
By Jen
February 25, 2009 10:26 AM | Link to this
I do not want a this type a of business in my city. Rawnica has a 5000sf house in Hanover Twp., she could of just opened her little business there. Then she would have to live with the crime and prostitution that is a by product of business like V’s. Shame on you.
By Ben
February 25, 2009 12:19 PM | Link to this
Yes Jen, I like your suggestion that she operate this business on her huge property in Hanover Twp. Imagine the possiblities for the strippers the mega-outdoor playground!
By A friend of Rawnica
February 25, 2009 1:06 PM | Link to this
This is hardly Rawnica’s fault. Think about it what is she doing being married to a man twice her age? Do some background information on her husband Joe! He has some type of influance on Rawnica, Joe also has a history of getting married to younger girls, and opens up Nightclubs/Bars in their names, and will bankrupt them and divorce them as they age or get busted and shut down, He runs the show in V’s Nightclub not Rawnica! Joe, won’t call the police to “His” club V’s to make things last as lon as they can with his young lover. While he’s in V’s running the show he already has his next victim picked-out, yet another young girl who either bar-tends, or is a customer. He will do his research on the girl, use her credit, and teach her how to open a Nihtclub or bar, and then the show goes on! When it’s all over and they finally shut down V’s I can only pray for Rawnica. One of Joe’s Last victims is in terrible shape. Rawnica is just a pawn in the game of Joe’s Nightclub lifestyle. Do some research on her husband Joe, and you might find better stories than this one. He is the criminal, Find out what he has on Rawnica! He will claim “I made you everything you are baby.” And that may be? Rawnica is a victim of Joe, a con man, and self proclaimed “Mafia” man. Rawnica has been suffering from severe Anxiety ever since that place V’s opened, She did not get what Joe promised her, and NEVER wanted to get into the bar business. When she failed to win butler county as Joe expected then his real plan came into the works’. Another Bar, and another broken heart. Get away from him Rawnica.
By Captain Karl
February 25, 2009 1:54 PM | Link to this
I cannot believe a person who preaches of good christian family values would allow this sort of thing to go on in her establishment. I live in a neighborhhod not too far from V’s and I do not want this kind of business anywhere near my home. Not to mention the new elementary school being built just around the corner. This kind of establishment attracts vagrants, drugs, prostitutes. None of which I would want anywhere near my children or my neighborhood! I hope she does not plan to run for anymore offices. I think she finished her career in politics when she chose to bring this trash into our town!
By Dancer
February 26, 2009 12:08 AM | Link to this
As a dancer who was hired by this establishment to perform a show in said establishment, I am more than surprised at the negative bashing by the media and its collectives. As far as I have been informed, this is not a regular action in this club. We were hired to preform under the pretense that the owners and management had cleared and made sure that this event was within the limitations of the laws set forth in this county. After dancing for about 10 years, I have never encountered a problem such as this. The media has blown these acts severely out of proportion. Why would we have been contracted for this show if the owners of the bar believed they were breaking the law? The police who entered the establishment were certainly not there to look for “strippers.” As we were later informed by the police, there is a lot of drug activity in and out of this bar. We observed under age patrons being served alcohol, and this bar does not even have a liqueur liscense. We were also told of two men being stabbed in an altercation over drugs only two days previous. Where is this information in your slanted news story. Why is there no information about the DEA and alcohol control being brought in? Do drug dogs now sniff out girls wearing underwear and pasties? We were also informed by the police that the officers had been looking for reasons to close the doors to this establishment for sometime. We were used as decoys for them to dig around for what they were really looking for. We are not prostitutes. We do not perform sexual acts for money. We are adult entertainers. It is a job protected by the constitution. If there are laws prohibiting such performances in this county, why did the bar owners request and hire us to commute from several hours away to perform illegally and cause slander and damage to their business? Maybe some of these fingers need to be pointed in a different direction. We had no intention of diminishing the moral staple of your town. We were there to honor the request of the establishment, as we have done for some time, mind you with out any altercation with any sort of law enforcement. We certainly would not have traveled and appeared had we been informed that this was illegal in your county. We are just trying to receive compensation for work, just as you are. We didn’t just appear without invitation, we were hired under a contract. If this was breaking the law, why did the officers wait until we had finished our performance, rather than telling us that this type of behavior is prohibited in this county, this town, and V’s Bar? Serve and protect is a an action that should by right be offered to us all.
By null
February 27, 2009 4:51 PM | Link to this
A response.