A former Drug Enforcement Administration special agent and one of the agency’s information technology specialists were arrested Wednesday on charges of trying to conceal their ownership of a New Jersey strip club which employed illegal immigrants.
Federal authorities say that Glen Glover, a 45-year-old information technology specialist for the agency, and David Polos, a 51-year-old former DEA Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Strike Force Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge, had been secretly running the Twins Plus Go-Go Lounge and trying to hide the club from their agency.
According to an FBI statement, Mr. Glover and Mr. Polos had a vested interest in the seedy adult establishment, which featured scantily clad and sometimes topless female dancers, and purposely omitted that outside interest from their federal paperwork.
The two men surrendered to the FBI Wednesday morning in Manhattan, New York.
The club also employed illegal immigrants, according to the statement.
“Glover and Polos both worked regular shifts at the Club in the months prior to and following their submission of the national security forms,” the statement claimed.
“They also hired, fired, and paid bartenders, dancers, and bouncers; advertised the Club in local periodicals; manned a back office available only to employees; remotely monitored video camera feed from the Club when not present; and generally tended to various Club-related matters,” the FBI said.
The two men sometimes even tended to their strip club business venture during DEA work hours, according to the statement.
Mr. Glover and Mr. Polos each face a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted of making a false statements to the government.
• Maggie Ybarra can be reached at mybarra@washingtontimes.com.
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