Bikini baristas ‘pole danced and flashed their breasts for tips’ at drive …
August 26, 2011 by admin
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By
Hannah Roberts
Last updated at 11:54 PM on 25th August 2011
Bikini baristas gave sexually
explicit dances using a stripper pole, and let customers touch their bare breasts, according to charges filed by prosecutors.
Carmela Panico, the owner of several drive through espresso stands called Java Juggs, has been charged with lewd conduct after police allegedly filmed workers pole dancing and performing sexually explicit acts for tips .
The stand, one of three owned by Panico near Everett, Washington, was allegedly equipped with a floor-to-ceiling stripper pole.
Java Juggs girls serve coffee with a difference, according to police. Here is a photo of two unidentified ladies from the outlet’s Facebook page
Prosecutors also filed misdemeanor charges against six of her employees, the Seattle Post Intelligencer reported.
Charging documents describe a nine-hour police video that allegedly shows Panico, 49, and an employee doing pole dances, flashing their breasts, and letting a regular trickle of early-morning customers touch and watch them for tips.
Undercover police monitored three coffee bars owned by Panico for months using covert surveillance techniques. The charges relate to only one stand.
Panico, clad in hot pants and a cropped shirt, was seen sitting on a window ledge and spanking herself, prosecutors said.
Police also allegedly recorded her clasping a man’s face to her breasts and allowing men to put tips in her bra.
Show girl: An unidentified bikini barista shows off her physique at a Java Juggs espresso bar, as photographed on online review site Yelp!.
One worker was seen pulling her bikini top aside and rubbing herself, prosecutors said.
One barista said that that she and Panico used to dance at ‘Rick’s', a strip club in the area, charging papers show.
One undercover officer ‘Detective Frausto,’ paid $20 for a coffee from a barista in a tiger-print, string bikini.
‘Are you a naughty boy?’ she asked him, according to prosecutors.
Frausto
said yes. The barista turned up the music, slid her bikini top and
bottom around, climbed up the pole, and did the splits, prosecutors
said.
In business: One of the Java Juggs drive through coffee stands
On another occasion Frausto bought
coffee from a different barista. He gave her $10, but the barista
allegedly said, ‘I can’t give you any flashes or anything today.
She
offered to give the money back and explained that another barista had
been fired for dancing naked in front of an undercover cop, charging
documents said.
A third time, he
bought coffee from Panico, giving her $20 and getting a dance involving
some pole-grabbing and butt-shaking, prosecutors said.
She allegedly confirmed she had previously fired a barista for doing a naked pole dance.
‘She claimed she did not want any ‘lewd’ behaviour at her stands and wanted to be informed of it,’ prosecutors said.
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