NYC Strippers Charged With Drugging Wealthy Men, Stealing Around $200,000
Four New York City strippers and a strip club manager are on the hook for allegedly drugging and ripping off wealthy men for thousands of dollars.
A release from the Special Narcotics Prosecutor reveals that the gang stole around $200,000 from four victims from September to December 2013.
According to the release, the strippers targeted upper class and professional men at bars and slipped ketamine, Molly, and/or cocaine, reports the Gothamist. The men were then transported to either a strip club called Scores in Manhattan or RoadHouse in Flushing, Queens, where the strippers would rack up expenses on their credit cards and blackmail them when they attempted to dispute the charges.
Altogether, the suspects stole $200,000 from a New Jersey doctor, a banker, a hedge fund executive and a real estate attorney. One of the men claims that his credit card was charged over $100,000 within three nights. The women were paid according to the money that they brought in.
Inside sources told the New York Post that the women lured the men to hotel rooms and "snapped photos of the victims or filmed them in compromising sexual positions with women and men." The men reported waking up the next day in their cars or in hotel rooms with little to no memory of what had happened. However, when they tried to dispute the charges, they received texts from the strippers threatening to expose their photos.
Suspects Karina Pascucci, 24, and the manager, Carmine Vitolo, 43, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in state court in Manhattan. The other three defendants -- ringleader Samantha Barbash, 40, Roselyn Keo, 29, and Mari Rosen, 28 -- were arraigned on Tuesday.
"The defendants were banking on the victims being too afraid to contact the police, but as the indictment and arrests show, they made a serious miscalculation," Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget G. Brennan said, reports ABC News.
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