Man claims Lagrange Street stripper giving him a lap dance tried to screw him, but not in a good way

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether the Glass Slipper - half of what remains of the Combat Zone - could have done anything to prevent a stripper giving a customer a lap dance from, he told police, reaching into his pocket, getting his phone and Zelle-ing herself $320 - after he'd already paid downstairs for some extra attention in one of the club's upstairs VIP rooms.

One possible issue: Although the man gave police enough evidence to charge the woman with wire fraud under $1,200, a clerk magistrate in Boston Municipal Court dismissed the charge after finding his testimony "not credible," a Boston Police detective told the board at a hearing today.

At the hearing, the detective and a club attorney said the man visited the Lagrange Street strip club on Dec. 8 and spent a total of $2,493 on drinks and whatever else one spends money on at a strip club - including a payment for a little private show upstairs.

The man told the detective he knew something was amiss when he noticed a Zelle transaction for $320 when he'd put all his other charges on his credit card, rather than using the phone-base money-transfer app. The detective added that while the man said his phone normally required a fingerprint scan to open up, the man thought he might have left the phone running as he went upstairs, making it possible for the woman to access his Zelle account.

The detective added that when he reached the woman on the phone as part of his investigation, she agreed to transfer the money back to the man but that she never did.

Glass Slipper attorney George Zabour said the club had never had such problems with the woman in her five years working there. Still, the club fired her after hearing about the incident.

Zabour added, "she has hired an attorney and is suing my client" over the firing. A search of records at Boston Municipal Court, Suffolk Superior Court and US District Court in Boston this morning showed no pending suits against the Glass Slipper or its holding company, 15 Lagrange Street Corp.