Haley Dawson has never been a stripper. But Ohio liquor-control agents took her identity and gave it to a 22-year-old college student who they had recruited to work undercover as a nude dancer. As part of an investigation that resulted in nothing more than misdemeanor charges, police paid University of Dayton criminal-justice student Michelle Szuhay $100 a night to take it all off in early 2003 — as liquor-control officers drank beer and watched in the audience for three months, court papers show. Other officers watched her strip on the Internet, using an account created under the identity of a dead man. The officers did all this by using Dawson's driver's license and Social Security number to hide Szuhay's identity while she worked at the targeted strip club, the now-closed Total Xposure in Troy. To Dawson's father, David Dawson, "It certainly looks like identity theft." But it's not, said Miami County Prosecutor Gary Nasal. Pointing to a 2002 change in Ohio's law aimed at fighting identity theft, Nasal said police are allowed to assume anyone's identity as long as it's part of an investigation. "I don't know much about law, but I would say that's just baloney," said David Dawson, who lives part of the year in Columbus. He is the brother of Mike Dawson, the chief policy adviser to U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine. Ohio Rep. Jim Hughes, the Columbus Republican who sponsored the change, also disagrees with Nasal, as do the American Civil Liberties Union and a lobbyist who pushed for the legal change. "It was not intended for that, I can tell you that," Hughes said.
Isn't this the plot line for about half the movies shown on Cinemax between the hours of 1 and 3am on weekends? You would almost think that it's mandatory that all policewomen, female FBI agents and other government investigator-babes have to spend time pole dancing.