Hmm now, let’s see, it took 40 cops over 4 hours to conduct this titty-joint raid. That means they conducted a thorough search of the nude dancers and looked hard for evidence of wrongdoing. I’m sure that these dedicated cops and their chief made Edinburg a much safer place to live in.
EDINBURG VS. THE ALL-NUDE CLUB: ON LIKE DONKEY KONG
By Richard Connelly
Houston Press Hair Balls
September 13, 2011
Ever since Rolando Castenada took over as Edinburg's chief of police in May, he has had a hard-on for the all-nude Jaguars club.
Maybe that should be reworded: Let's just say he's been preoccupied with getting Jaguars closed.
There's not much he can do -- the club doesn't serve alcohol, and it is grandfathered under the city's anti-SOB ordinances because it opened up in an unincorporated part of the area before being annexed.
That hasn't stopped Castenada, and now the city is being sued over a raid last month.
The owners of Jaguars filed a suit, outlining such tactics by the chief as parking three cop cars in front of the establishment for hours at a time one weekend, "thereby reducing the number of customers patronizing Jaguars."
They also said he brought in a lawn chair and sat down in the parking lot of the club, where he then oversaw the August raid.
During the raid, the suit says, 40 cops zip-tied everyone in the place, police officers went through the contents of the safe, property was taken without proper warrants, and a raid that should have lasted 30 minutes stretched over four hours of valuable titty-baring time.
Eleven dancers and hostesses were detained on immigration charges, the Monitor reports.
The club owners say the raid violated a slew of their constitutional rights and are seeking a temporary restraining order and damages.
For its part, the city has issued a statement saying it denies any allegations of wrongdoing "and will defend itself to the full extent of the law against these allegations."
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