TORRANCE : Officer Terminated for Socializing With Strippers
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A Torrance police officer accused of socializing--in uniform and on duty--with professional strippers at a private residence has been terminated, city officials said Wednesday.
Citing privacy laws protecting personnel records, City Atty. John L. Fellows III would not say whether Daniel G. Sprague, 32, was fired or had resigned.
“I can only tell you . . . his employment terminated on Jan. 25, 1995,” Fellows said.
Sprague, a nine-year veteran of the force, was among three officers suspended after Torrance internal affairs investigators began an inquiry in April. He is the only one of the three to be terminated so far.
The officers allegedly frequented a 242nd Street house that was occupied by the owner of Ten Plus Entertainment, a Torrance company that hires out nude dancers for private parties and was often crowded with some of those dancers, neighbors said.
According to neighbors, the officers would park their police cruisers nearby and disappear into the house, sometimes for hours.
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