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The first round of strippers of the Southern X-posure ended anti-climatically with just one case going to trial which ended almost as it began with a no contest plea.
Anika Marin Brown pled no contest to a citation for performing forbidden acts while dancing at the club. Originally part of a half a dozen strippers charged Brown was the only one whose case reached trial.
But while the first round ended with a whimper rather than a roar, four more cases are set to go to trial later this year in August and September.
The citations are a reflection of the increased enforcement of the West Wendover stripping code that began earlier this year.
“This is plain and simple harassment,” said strip club owner Scott Bangerter Wednesday. “I have been in operation since 2001 and never once have one of the dancers received a citation for in appropriate behavior until this year. In 90 days they issued 14.”
West Wendover City Attorney confirmed Wednesday that Bangerter could be correct at least to the fact that his dancers were never cited before for “inappropriate” acts while stripping or performing.
“I really can’t confirm the number of recently issued citations,” Coyle explained. “They only come to me when they are challenged.”
Bangerter suggested that the citations came only after he made an official complaint to West Wendover Police Chief Ron Supp regarding the conduct of his patrol officers during a walk through of his club this January.
“They barged into the dressing room without even knocking,” He said. “We made a kind of stink about that and then the girls started getting tickets.
While Bangerter’s dancers may not have been cited before the club has had frequent run-ins with the city over a whole host of issues.
