dont these cops have any real crimes to solve???? Original Article Posted on Wed, Aug. 31, 2005 State fires liquor agents who used woman's ID in strip club sting Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - The state fired two liquor control agents who gave another woman's identity to a nude dancer in an undercover investigation at a strip club and another agent who had been reprimanded for botching an underage tobacco sting. Chad Fannin, 33, of Urbana, and Gavin Stanton, 34, of West Milton, were notified July 27 that they were fired for conduct unbecoming officers and failure to perform their duties. Timothy Gales, 50, of Whitehall, was fired in August for conduct unbecoming an officer. The Ohio Department of Public Safety released the records on the strip club officers last week, but won't issue specifics on the conduct or duties, and on Gales on Tuesday. None has a listed telephone number. The three have filed grievances through their union, and the Fraternal Order of Police is seeking their reinstatement with back pay, union representative Joel Barden said. Fannin and Stanton gave the driver's license and Social Security number of a Cincinnati woman to Troy police, who gave them to another woman so she could get a job as a stripper as part of a sting operation at the club, which is now closed. Miami County prosecutors defended the tactic because it was legal under Ohio law. The Legislature then changed the law to require law enforcement to obtain permission before using a living person's identity in an investigation. The county later appointed a special prosecutor from nearby Montgomery County to determine if any criminal charges should be filed against the investigators. The case could go to a grand jury next month, spokesman Greg Flannagan said. The department said it fired Gales because he was charged in July with selling more than five cars in a year without a dealer's permit. He was convicted in 2002 of the same offense. This spring, Gales was ordered to work five days without pay after a boy hired to try to buy tobacco at stores reported that Gales would remind clerks to check his ID. Earlier, he had been docked a day's pay, after he and another agent handcuffed a Columbus parking-lot attendant who asked them to pay a $5 parking fee. They forced the attendant into their car and drove him around for a half-hour before releasing him.