Bikini baristas ‘pole danced and flashed their breasts for tips’ at drive …

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.

Print this article

Read later

Email to a friend

Share this article:

Share and Enjoy

IXACT Contact Integrates E-mail Marketing and Reporting Features to Real …

Call Center Software Featured Article

IXACT Contact, a Web-based real estate customer relationship management (CRM) system company, announced that it has seamlessly integrated its powerful e-mail marketing and reporting functionality into its real estate CRM.

This is a significant development for both the company and consumers, as the new real estate marketing feature enables subscribers to get access to a strong e-mail marketing platform built into their real estate CRM system.

IXACT Contact‘s mass e-mail campaign reporting feature provides customers with data and statistics on overall deliverability of e-mail campaigns including open rate, click-through rate, and bounce rate.

“With the release of this important and exciting new feature to IXACT Contact, there’s no longer a need to pay for and maintain two different systems; a real estate CRM for contact data and an e-newsletter platform for e-mail marketing,” said Rich Gaasenbeek, vice president, sales and marketing, IXACT Contact, in a statement. “This translates into big savings for our customers.”

Leveraging the new functionality, IXACT Contact subscribers can see who’s getting their e-mails and opening them and even who’s clicking on hyperlinks in their e-mails, as well as forwarding their e-mails on to others.

Utilizing this information, subscribers can identify the most interested leads in their database in addition to their key supporters.

The mass e-mail campaign reporting functionality offers subscribers to have access to data-rich tables supplemented by graphs and charts. The IXACT Contact’s advanced e-mail marketing features enable realtors to export data from their CRM and upload to their e-mail marketing or real estate marketing platform.

Recently, IXACT Contact launched a contest on Facebook to strengthen its online presence leveraging the power of social networking. The contest titled “Share Your Story and Win” invited subscribers to write a short paragraph on how the real estate software has helped them become a more effective realtor.

Want to learn more about the latest in communications and technology? Then be sure to attend ITEXPO West 2011, taking place Sept. 13-15, 2011, in Austin, Texas. ITEXPO (News – Alert) offers an educational program to help corporate decision makers select the right IP-based voice, video, fax and unified communications solutions to improve their operations. It’s also where service providers learn how to profitably roll out the services their subscribers are clamoring for – and where resellers can learn about new growth opportunities. To register, click here.

Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Jamie Epstein

Share and Enjoy