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Police say Lisa's Cabaret is haven for prostitution
By Phil Trexler
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
Akron officials want to shut down a strip club that vice officers allege houses prostitutes.
City attorneys sued this week, asking a Summit County judge to declare Lisa's Cabaret on East Market Street a public nuisance and to close down the adult nightspot for at least a year.
A hearing before Common Pleas Judge Brenda Burnham Unruh will be held next Thursday.
The property is owned by Pete Georgekopoulos, who leases the building to Sessions IV Inc. Thomas Sessions is identified in the city's complaint as the company's statutory agent. He could not be reached for comment.
Georgekopoulos' attorney, Peter Cahoon, declined to comment.
Doug Powley, Akron's chief prosecutor, said vice unit police officers have made prostitution arrests at the club during the course of at least five separate investigations over the past two years.
The club also has been the site of several violent thefts and disorderly conduct, he said.
City health officials cited the club April 2 for health-code violations, according to the city's lawsuit. The club remained closed for several days while repairs were made.
''We want to close the business down, given their history,'' Powley said Wednesday. ''This has been going on over a period of time. There's been at least five separate investigations and each time an officer has gone in and made charges of solicitation.''
The city's lawsuit claims that for the past two years, Lisa's Cabaret ''has been and continues to be a place in which lewdness, assignation and prostitution is conducted.''
This year, police arrested the club's manager and charged him with operating a brothel out of the cabaret. Three women were accused of soliciting prostitution. In January, two other women were charged with solicitation. Two undercover officers said the women offered them sex for $150.
Powley said a botched drug deal in January that led to the shooting deaths of two people in the club's parking lot is not being cited in this case because investigators determined it was not related to the business.
Phil Trexler can be reached at 330-996-3717 or ptrexler@thebeaconjournal.com.
Akron officials want to shut down a strip club that vice officers allege houses prostitutes.
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