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Club owner, women charged in alleged strip club raid

Nine alleged strippers leave court yesterday, after being charged with gross public indecency for allegedly dancing while partially nude.

8ight Jamaicans and a Bahamian – leave court yesterday after being accused of offending decency laws. TNG file photos

Owner of the Copacabana nightclub Dennis Palomino is taken to court yesterday.

Nine alleged strippers leave court yesterday, after being charged with gross public indecency for allegedly dancing while partially nude.

8ight Jamaicans and a Bahamian – leave court yesterday after being accused of offending decency laws. TNG file photos

Artesia Davis
Guardian Senior Reporter
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Published: Sep 11, 2012

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Nine alleged strippers appeared before a magistrate late Monday afternoon accused of offending decency laws.
The women — eight Jamaicans and a Bahamian — were arrested on Friday night at the Copacabana nightclub on West Bay Street.
Club owner, Dennis Palomino, who at times serves as a Spanish and Portuguese interpreter in the courts, denied a charge of allowing the premises to be used for performing without a license. Palomino, 44, who was represented by Myles Laroda, was the only defendant with a lawyer.
With tears in their eyes, the disheveled women were arraigned before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell on charges of gross public indecency for allegedly dancing while partially nude.
Three of the women, Doreen Taylor, Colecia Peake and Bahamian Chatel Hill, faced a charge of soliciting prostitution in addition to the indecency charge. Hill is also accused of giving PC 2900 Hepburn a false name.
Taylor admitted the indecency charge, but denied the charge of solicitation. Peake admitted all charges, while Hill denied them all.
Tanelia Salmon, Cornelia Chambers, Latoya Depass, Stacyann Andrews, Sabrina Scott and Lamore Adams all pleaded guilty to the indecency charge.
Magistrate Bethell remanded the defendants into custody until Thursday. At that time, the prosecutor will read the case summary in relation to the defendants who pleaded guilty. She will also set trial dates and consider bail for those who entered not guilty pleas.
The Jamaicans will also be arraigned for alleged immigration violations at their next court appearance.
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