Ohio: Police steal two identities for undercover stripper operation

Who said police work is no fun?

...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.

Michelle was stripping under the persona of Haley Dawson - complete down to the license and social security number.

Too bad someone didn't ask the real Ms. Haley Dawson about this first.

Same case, more identity theft on the flip...

It wasn't enough for the officers to be drinking beer and watching live nude women. What if the officers couldn't be present?

Other officers watched her strip on the Internet, using an account created under the identity of a dead man.

So this case is up to two stolen identities, three months of beer & buck-naked women, and several thousand in payments to the Ms. Szuhay. What did all of this time, energy & resources net?

As part of an investigation that resulted in nothing more than misdemeanor charges

Can someone tell Deputy Fife he's done a swell job this time!