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

Jontay Goode is accused of stealing over $22,000 from the strip membership he works at.
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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 in the course of the gunpoint heist, in line with experiences.

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

“It’s any individual who knew our routine,” mentioned 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 informed the Boston Globe.

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

Goode allegedly disguised his pores and skin tone, stored his hair underneath a baseball cap and wore a surgical masks and sun shades over his face.

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He allegedly disguised his pores and skin tone, stored his hair underneath 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 time 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 assumed it was a joke,” supervisor Ed Imondi informed WPRI-TV. “He mentioned ‘this can be a theft.’ I mentioned ‘what?’ and he mentioned ‘I’m going to rob the place.’”

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

Police had been capable of get better a lot of the stolen solid shortly after the theft as a result of Goode allegedly tried to cover the stash on close by railroad tracks to retrieve later, in line 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 mentioned let’s open,” Shappy informed the Globe. “So we opened.”