The Columbus, Ohio vice cops who arrested AVN Hall of Famer Stormy Daniels in July of last year, as AVN.com reported, have not fared well since Daniels’ arrest—a bust for which charges were dismissed in less than 24 hours.
The Columbus vice unit soon became the target of a federal investigation for corruption, three vice officers in the unit were suspended—including two who were involved in the questionable Daniels arrest—and in March of this year, the Columbus Police department finally threw up its collective hands and eliminated the whole vice unit, reassigning all 10 officers who had been part of it.
But even now, two of the suspended officers who were part of the Daniels arrest are facing brand new legal troubles. Detectives Whitney Lancaster and Steven Rosser are facing a lawsuit from six women who worked as strippers at the Columbus gentleman’s club Kahoots (pictured above). The women say in the suit that the two detectives singled out dancers at Kahoots for arrest as part of a revenge scheme against the club for firing a bouncer who allegedly worked for Rosser as a confidential informant, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
The women were arrested under a local ordinance that prohibits dancers in strip clubs from any sort of physical contact with patrons. Rosser and Lancaster arrested Daniels under the same ordinance at a different Columbus strip club, Sirens.
After an internal investigation, as AVN.com reported, Daniels’ arrest was ruled to be “improper,” but not politically motivated, though it was reported that the arresting officders were Trump supporters.
The lawsuit filed by the six Kahoots dancers who were arrested by Rosser and Lancaster alleges that after the bouncer was fired, “Rosser approached the owner(s) of Kahoots and threatened that if (the bouncer) was not rehired by Kahoots, Defendant Rosser would ‘file a bunch of tickets’ and implied he would close Kahoots.”
The bouncer was eventually rehired, but five of the six dancers were arrested during the period that he was not employed by the club. Charges against all six arrested dancers were eventually dismissed.
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