Cabaret owner wants evidence suppressed

YOUNGSTOWN — The owner of the Go Go Girls Cabaret seeks to bar prosecutors from using evidence obtained from electronic surveillance of the cabaret.

He also wants evidence kept out from two search warrants executed at the business in the criminal trial of the owner and others.

The jury trial of Sebastian Rucci, owner of the Austintown cabaret at 5455 Clarkins Drive, and five other defendants begins Oct. 18 before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Rucci, Curtis Jones, Derrick L. Dozier, Wayne Penny and Peter E. Sciullo II are charged with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, money laundering, perjury and two counts each of promoting prostitution. Jones, Dozier, Penny and Scuillo were club employees last year.

Robert Neill, former club manager, is charged with one count of promoting prostitution.

“The warrantless electronic surveillance is illegal under state and federal electronic surveillance statutes,” Rucci argued in a 38-page motion to suppress evidence.

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