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More than 50 felony and misdemeanor charges were filed against 30 employees of the strip club at 1115 N. Federal Highway, according to the Boynton Beach Police Department.
“This establishment has generated numerous complaints not only from neighborhoods nearby but from citizens throughout the city,” Boynton Beach Police Chief G. Matthew Immler said.
Undercover officers bought cocaine and prescription painkillers from the dancers who offered to perform sex acts on the officers in private rooms and went so far as to perform sex acts on each other in an attempt to solicit money from patrons, police said.
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Empty water bottles and blue plastic gloves were strewn about the parking lot near the club’s north entrance Saturday. Nine cars were in the parking lot in addition to red and silver Hummers bearing the strip club’s name and phone number.

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Boynton Beach Police shut down Platinum Showgirls strip club Friday night following an undercover investigation that resulted in more than 50 felony and misdemeanor charges against 30 employees for drug sales, underage drinking and prostitution.
The club, located at 1115 N. Federal Highway, also violated county ordinances by allowing many of their dancers to engage in lap dances and working without identification cards, according to Public Information Officer Stephanie Slater.
“This establishment has generated numerous complaints not only from the residential neighborhoods nearby, but from citizens throughout the city,” Boynton Beach Police Chief G. Matthew Immler said. “Tonight’s operation is the culmination of that investigation and the reduction of untoward illegal activity that adversely affects the safety of our citizens and the image of our city.”
Going on a tip that dancers were selling drugs, in June, undercover officers began visiting the club. Within days, they were able to buy hundreds of dollars in cocaine and prescription painkillers from dancers, Slater, said.

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Boynton police raid Platinum Showgirls; arrest 30 on drug trafficking, prostitution and underage drinking charges
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 31, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH — Police shut down the adult entertainment club Platinum Showgirls Friday night following a four-month undercover investigation that led to charges of drug trafficking, underage drinking and prostitution.
More than 50 felony and misdemeanor charges were filed against 30 employees of the strip club at 1115 N. Federal Highway, according to the Boynton Beach Police Department.
“This establishment has generated numerous complaints not only from neighborhoods nearby but from citizens throughout the city,” Boynton Beach Police Chief G. Matthew Immler said.
Undercover officers bought cocaine and prescription painkillers from the dancers who offered to perform sex acts on the officers in private rooms and went so far as to perform sex acts on each other in an attempt to solicit money from patrons, police said.

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SWAT Teams Raid Boynton Beach Strip Club
More Than 50 Law Enforcement Personnel At Scene Late Friday
POSTED: 11:31 pm EDT October 30, 2009UPDATED: 4:45 am EDT October 31, 2009
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — A popular Boynton Beach strip club, Platinum Showgirls, has been shut down after a raid 4 months in the making.
SWAT teams swarmed the club on Federal Highway Friday night following an undercover investigation. According to the Boynton Beach Police, more than 30 employees, including club owner Matt Barrow, have been charged with racketeering and drug trafficking.
WPBF News has also learned that Platinum Showgirls also violated county ordinanced by allowing many of its dancers to perform lap dances, work without I-D cards and drink underage with customers.
In June, undercover officers began going into the club attempting to buy drugs. Within days, authorities say they were buying hundreds of dollars worth of cocaine and prescription painkillers from dancers. Boynton Beach Public Information Officer Stephanie Slater says “Undercover officers were able to purchase narcotics from the dancers, who often kept the drugs in a pouch under their skirts.”

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residents who ran an escort service with underage girls have been sentenced to prison as part of a nationwide crackdown on child exploitation, authorities said.
The two, David Pierre, 34, and Jenna Linden, 24, were sentenced in federal court after they both pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor earlier this year. Pierre was sentenced to 10 years in prison; Linden, to five years. Both sentences include a period of supervised release as sex offenders, authorities said Tuesday in a statement.
Authorities said that Pierre ran an escort service from his Fort Lauderdale home in 2008 that he advertised online. Linden helped Pierre in transporting the girls to customers throughout South Florida, according to a press release from the investigations branch of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
In November 2008, a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were discovered by agents to be victims of the escort service, authorities said.

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residents who ran an escort service with underage girls have been sentenced to prison as part of a nationwide crackdown on child exploitation, authorities said.
The two, David Pierre, 34 and Jenna Linden, 24, were sentenced in federal court after they both pled guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor earlier this year. Pierre was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Linden was sentenced to five years in prison, both including a period of supervised release as sex offenders, authorities said Tuesday in a statement.
Authorities said that Pierre ran an escort service from his Fort Lauderdale home in 2008 that he advertised online. Linden helped Pierre in transporting the girls to customers throughout South Florida, according to a press release from the investigations branch of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
In November 2008, a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were discovered by agents to be victims of the escort service, authorities said.

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Two people who pleaded guilty in July to running an escort service with underage girls who had been trafficked are in federal prison today.
David Pierre, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by five years probation.  Jenna Linden, 24, also of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to five years in prison followed by three years of probation.  Linden and Pierre pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor on July 15, 2009 and August 13, 2009, respectively.
Federal investigators discovered the escort service in November 2008, after a 14-year-old girl was rescued in Fort Lauderdale.  Investigators concluded Pierre operated a prostitution ring disguised as an escort service from his home.  Pierre advertised his business Online.  Linden helped Pierre transport the girls to customers throughout the South Florida area.

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DALLAS (AP) A Jordanian man is pleading not guilty to charges that he tried to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb. The man (Hosam Maher Smadi) was arrested in September after allegedly parking a truck in a garage underneath the building. In fact, he’d been dealing with FBI agents posing as al-Qaida operatives.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) An autopsy finds that a heart attack caused the death of an associate of jailed financial manager Bernard Madoff (MAY’-dawf). A medical examiner says Jeffry Picower (PIHK’-ow-ur) had a heart attack and drowned while swimming in the pool at his Palm Beach mansion over the weekend. He had been accused by Madoff investors of being the biggest beneficiary of Madoff’s schemes.
WASHINGTON (AP) FBI officials say they have rescued 52 children in a series of raids around the country aimed at under-age prostitution. Authorities say the youngest victim was just 10 years old. The raids are the latest in a long-running Operation Cross Country aimed at child prostitution rings around the country.

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There’s a showbiz flavor to part of each program, whether Company B this weekend, or, for Program II, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, which Balanchine choreographed for the 1936 musical On Your Toes (his first Broadway work). It’s the comic tale of a hoofer who battles gangsters and petulant ballet stars for the love of a stripper, and which MCB first (and last) danced in 2001. Program III is Villella’s evening-length The Neighborhood Ballroom, a four-part social and ballroom dance saga completed in 2003 that follows a young poet’s life and romantic travails from the 1912 dawn of the waltz to the mambo explosion of the 1950s. (The company has brought back Yann Trividic, the French dancer who starred as the poet.) And Program IV finishes with Balanchine’s Who Cares?, a jazzy valentine to George Gershwin’s music and insouciant American style.

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… In every room there’s a big screen, flat screen TV, including the baby’s room,” said Damian.
Among the cars the Healys acquired, before the scheme unfolded earlier this year: A red Ferarri, valued at $250,000; a yellow Lamborghini, worth another $250,000; two matching black porches, worth $125,000; a stretch limo valued at $100,000; a silver Lamborghini with custom pink trim for Mrs. Healy, valued at $225,000; and a Hummer golf cart, worth $35,000. The total value of all the cars: $1.08 million.
Other gawdy items include a guitar hand-signed by several members of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame and some Versace goblets.
To make things worse, Healy, even as he knew authorities were closing in on him, made a $4,000 trip to a strip club just before his arrest, lawyers said. 

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