DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A former Flagler County sheriff's deputy is among four men charged with beating and stealing from a customer at Lollipops strip club in Daytona Beach.
Daytona Beach police arrested Jermine Riley, 40, former deputy Michael Kramer, 35, and Brent Rose, 42, Saturday night. All three are employees of the club, while a manager, Joseph Victorelli, 47, turned himself in at the Volusia County Jail on Sunday.
All four men have since bonded out of jail.
According to police, surveillance cameras show the four men severely beating 55-year-old Thomas Volz, who was visiting from Omaha, Nebraska. Police said in the video it is also clear the men stole several pieces of jewelry from Volz.
"He gets punched in the face, they knock him down to the ground and they stomp him. They give him a good old-fashioned beat down," said Chief Mike Chitwood.
According to attorney Brett Hartley, who represents Lollipops, Volz was refusing to pay for $200 in lap dances he received. Volz said he never got the dances and the employees beat him up in an effort to intimidate him into paying.
Hartley said Volz was repeatedly asked to leave, but instead threatened the employees and kept trying to come back into the club. Hartley said Volz at one point appeared to physically challenge the bouncers and that Volz spit in the face of one of the bouncers, which initiated the physical confrontation.
Volz told WKMG-TV he will move forward in an effort to prosecute his alleged attackers. He said he was beaten "without regard for human life," suffering a broken nose, sore ribs and a concussion.