Roaches Rats and Fire to Fight Rival Strip Club

Club Onyx

In a sign of the times, Sandeo Dyson, Boyd Smith and Harold Thrower (all ex-employees of club Platinum 21), got sentences from 3 to 5 years in prision for Arson against club Onyx back in 2007 (sentences just came up this week).  What made this trio set the club on fire?

Back in those days, newly opened Club Onyx was taking customers away from other rival clubs.  The operators of Platinum 21 dreamed up ways of shutting the new club so they got to work and started infesting the club with roaches. That didn't work, so they moved up to rats.  Rats didn't do the trick either so they decided to cut corners and just set the club on fire.  In January of 2007 the fire shutdown the club for over 6 months and caused $1.8 Million dollars in damages. 

Sandeo Dyson, the security chief was in charge of setting the club ablaze (he was paid $5,000 to do it). Boyd Smith, the 41-year-old manager was charged with helping to plot the arson. Harold "Bit" Thrower, the club's corporate manager, was sentenced to three years for arranging the deal.

Thrower told his employees in November 2006 that their pay would be cut if the club's revenues continued to drop. He told ATF investigators that he hired Dyson, an Army veteran, to "solve the Club Onyx problem," according to a federal affidavit.

In the end Dyson appologized for the act, Smith kept saying he was innocent (just playing a minor role in the whole thing) and Thrower got a reduced sentence for cooperating with the authorities.

Next time, Strip Club disputes should be resolved in the old fashion way, my best stripper vs. your best stripper covered in oil. Winner takes all.