Atlanta Strip Clubs: Trooper’s Role in Helping Roethlisberger Is Investigated

Posted on April 17th, 2010 in Atlanta strip clubs

Witnesses told the investigation bureau that the other bodyguard — identified in reports as Anthony Barravecchio, a police officer in the Pittsburgh suburb of Coraopolis — led the woman into a hallway at the nightclub and placed her on a stool. One witness described her as being dragged in a drunken state by Barravecchio to a back room.
The accuser told the police that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted her in the restroom.
Barravecchio’s lawyer said Friday that his client had accompanied Roethlisberger to Georgia as a friend and was not working for him. “He was on vacation,” Michael Santicola of Beaver, Pa., said. “Mr. Barravecchio was not there in any official capacity.”
Santicola termed the accusations against Barravecchio “false, inaccurate and generated by an individual that the district attorney himself believed could not be used” in court. “They are noncredible stories.”
The Caraopolis police chief, Alan DeRusso, did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
Policies on off-duty work vary with each police jurisdiction. Most draw the line at providing security at strip clubs or for celebrities with an arrest record or an unsavory reputation.

See the full article from “New York Times”



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