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Usual Suspects Pinky, Inky and Clyde Also Rounded Up

The Associated Press is reporting that local authorities have seized $81,000 in cash-money from the hotel of a promoter responsible for the nightclub incident involving Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones over All-Star weekend. Mr. Jones was showering more than 40 female strippers at the club with money, but apparently it was only intended for “visual effect.” I don’t know what kind of nightclub it is where you can’t pour bags of money on the floor and expect it to be returned in an orderly fashion, but I guess they don’t call it Sin City for nothing.

Pacman Jones (Pictured right, gorging himself on an array of exotic fruits and gourmet dots), also lost two wrist watches at the event, but the jewelry was found with a garbage bag of money at the hotel of promoter Chris Mitchell. After Jones dumped the money on the floor, the ensuing struggle for the cash caused a brawl to break out, and was also the cause of the subsequent shooting reported earlier here at ETB. Some other highlights from the event include:

Later, a woman identified as a member of Jones’ group fought with one of the strippers and security tried to break up the fight, it says. Jones told the guards to back off and reached behind his back “as if he were retrieving a weapon there.”

Jones’ entourage was moved outside, but the woman continued to fight, according to the warrant filed Wednesday in Clark County District in Las Vegas.

The woman hit a guard in the head with a champagne bottle and “began biting and screaming” when other guards tried to restrain her, the warrant says. Minutes later, a valet told police he heard shots fired near the front entrance and saw a black man with corn rows in his hair pointing a black semi-automatic handgun, it says. The man then fled.

Good times. According to the AP, “Police have described the suspected shooter as last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.” They also went on to say that he was likely an adult male, medium sized, normal height with hair of regular length, probably brown. The officer in charge of the investigation issued an APB for the suspect in question, as well as for a box of those Girl Scout cookies he likes. You know the ones, they have coconut or something in them. They’re impossible to find this time of year.