{"id":378105,"date":"2026-07-18T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378105\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:00:10","slug":"fbi-raids-fort-worth-strip-club-in-court-authorized-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378105\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI raids Fort Worth strip club in court authorized operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781465947_496_breakingphoto.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The FBI and local law enforcement agencies conducted a \u201ccourt authorized\u201d operation at a Fort Worth strip club Friday night, July 17, officials say. It\u2019s not clear how many people were arrested.\" alt=\"The FBI and local law enforcement agencies conducted a \u201ccourt authorized\u201d operation at a Fort Worth strip club Friday night, July 17, officials say. It\u2019s not clear how many people were arrested.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The FBI and local law enforcement agencies conducted a \u201ccourt authorized\u201d operation at a Fort Worth strip club Friday night, July 17, officials say. It\u2019s not clear how many people were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>            Pexels<\/p>\n<p>FBI agents conducted a raid at a Fort Worth strip club Friday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Photos posted on social media show a large law enforcement presence at Flash Dancer Cabaret, located at 9317 South Freeway. An FBI spokesperson said via email that agents were \u201cperforming court authorized activity\u201d at the location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not providing further information at this time,\u201d the email states.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Worth Police Department confirmed that they assisted the FBI with the operation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how many people were arrested or on what charges. More details about the incident weren\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>A co-owner of the club, Ryan Walker Grant, was sentenced in 2013 to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ndtx\/pr\/tarrant-county-man-sentenced-10-years-federal-prison-murder-hire-case\">murder-for-hire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s Arlington location was shut down through a nuisance lawsuit filed by the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office and the City of Arlington, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Texas said in a 2013 news release. In April 2012, Grant tried to hire someone from Mexico to kill Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck and Tom Brandt, an attorney who had represented the city in lawsuits involving sexually-oriented businesses, federal prosecutors said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Grant was released from federal custody in 2020, according to online Bureau of Prisons records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published July 18, 2026 at 12:48 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784051299_460_Headshot.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Harriet Ramos\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/262053942\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Harriet Ramos covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FBI and local law enforcement agencies conducted a \u201ccourt authorized\u201d operation at a Fort Worth strip club&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-378105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}