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For his lap dance, the Rapid City police detective sat down, hands at his side, back straight.

It was May, and he was at Shotgun Willies as part of a compliance check by the Rapid City Police Department to see if the dance club was obeying the city's adult business ordinances. In the police report afterward, the detective summed up the dancer's routine.

The dancer, a 20-year-old woman, "walked up to me facing me with her top down," wrote the officer.

"During the dance (the woman) pulled down her top on two separate occasions while having physical contact with me," the officer said.

The detective cited her for that and one other ordinance violation, according to the report.

Incidents like that and others — police wrote five citations to Shotgun Willies dancers in 2013 — are why the city is moving to shut down Rapid City's only adult dance club. The Rapid City Council will hold a public hearing on the matter on Feb. 17.

But Stephen Wesolick, attorney for Shotgun Willies, said these are "trumped-up charges." Wesolick and Aaron Johnson, the club's owner, stepped forward last week to tell the Journal their side of the story and share copies of the charges against them.