The adult bookstore where a cross-dressing legislator first became ensnared in a career-ending extortion scandal in is being targeted by Spokane Valley City Hall. The city wants to impose stricter regulations. The store is licensed as an adult retail establishment, meaning that it can sell DVDs, lingerie, sex toys and other items.
But the business has a second floor that contains six small rooms where customers pay extra to watch sexually explicit movies. The city maintains in court documents that the movie viewing area should be licensed as an adult entertainment business, which carries stricter regulations such as a prohibition on group viewing and a requirement that the rooms be monitored by staff.
Wakefield said in his declaration that he also visited the business several times in uniform, and during those visits a clerk immediately turned off the videos. The police reports indicate that several men were cited for indecent exposure during those visits.
The store also played a role in the downfall of former Washington state Rep. Richard Curtis, a Republican from the Vancouver, Wash. According to court records, Curtis engaged in oral sex with a part-time gay model at the store, then met up with the same man later at a downtown hotel where the two reportedly had sex. Charges of extortion and theft against the model were eventually dropped. Thanks to a persistent wife, a fast-acting care team, and a serendipitous day off, Roy Hallmark has returned to life on his rural Priest Lake ranch after suffering a stroke.
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