Worker steals $22K in $1 bills from Rhode Island strip club in armed heist

A Windfall strip membership was robbed of $22,000 – all in $1 payments by a employee of the joint who disguised his pores and skin tone throughout the gunpoint heist, in accordance with stories.

Proper earlier than the Cadillac Lounge strip membership was set to open Monday afternoon, an armed suspect entered and demanded the supervisor hand over 1000’s of singles from a secure, the membership’s proprietor instructed the Windfall Journal.

“It’s someone who knew our routine,” stated proprietor Dick Shappy, who famous the suspect additionally knew the format of the enterprise.

On Tuesday, that assumption turned out to be true when Jontay Goode, 30, was charged with first-degree theft, Windfall police instructed the Boston Globe.

Goode, who was reportedly a barback on the membership, went to nice lengths to hide his identification.

He allegedly disguised his pores and skin tone, stored his hair beneath a baseball cap and wore a surgical masks and sun shades over his face, the Globe reported, citing footage of the suspect. He additionally reportedly wore denims and a jacket regardless of the summer season climate.

On high of the 22,000 in single greenback payments, he additionally grabbed $3,500 from the supervisor who was counting cash proper earlier than the suspect entered.  

“At first I believed it was a joke,” supervisor Ed Imondi instructed WPRI-TV. “He stated ‘this can be a theft.’ I stated ‘what?’ and he stated ‘I’m going to rob the place.’”

“He took all those, I might hear him stacking them into the massive bag he had. Clearly, he knew we had some huge cash in there,” Imondi added.

Police have been capable of recuperate a lot of the stolen forged shortly after the theft as a result of Goode allegedly tried to cover the stash on close by railroad tracks to retrieve later, in accordance with the station.

Regardless of the weird housebreaking, the membership nonetheless opened Monday, simply hours later.

“After the police left, women stored coming in, and I stated let’s open,” Shappy instructed the Globe. “So we opened.”