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KSL team coverage reportingOgden police have busted a teen for using fake identification to dance at a strip club, the Lighthouse Lounge. We called around to police departments and found this use of forged identification for a teenager seems to be a first.
Every day some teen somewhere in the valley is using a fake ID to buy beer, maybe cash a fake check, or get into a strip club, but never, that we found, to dance in one.
Lt. Loring Draper, with the Ogden City Police Department, called it "very unusual."
The 16-year-old was dancing at a strip club, a place where you have to be 21 to even get in, let alone perform.
Lt. Draper said, "It appears she borrowed somebody's driver's license or took somebody's drivers license and used that to get in."
That teen, known on stage as "Halo", got busted after someone called in and tipped off police. When officers went to the Lighthouse Lounge the teen wasn't there, but she was listed on the dancer schedule. Ogden investigators say they've never dealt with a case like this, neither has any other police department we talked to.
Sgt. Victor Quezada, with the Sandy Police Department, said, "Most of the time, we see kids with fake IDs is usually to buy alcohol."
Teens are also known to use fake IDs to get into night clubs. Those are the kinds of cases Sgt. Quezada deals with. Using a fake ID to dance at a strip club is something he's never heard of, but there have been a few other unusual ID cases he's dealt with. "I've heard of people getting into the military with a fake ID, joining the military and getting into the service like that."
Kids get the fakes by stealing or borrowing them, like the teen in Ogden is accused of; or they can buy them. "It's a business for some people to manufacture fake IDs, and some of them are very good," Sgt. Quezada said.
Sometimes, Quezada says the teens try to do it themselves, and it's pretty obvious. He says, "Some are pretty bad, some are really good."
The teen in Ogden could face charges of identity theft and of being in a 21 and over bar.
The Lighthouse Lounge could be in trouble too. "There were some other procedures that the bar was supposed to go through that we're looking into if they violated," Lt. Draper said.
To work at a strip club in Ogden, you have to get a Sexually-oriented business license. The teen in Ogden didn't have one, and she did dance at least once on stage, though she was never nude.
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