{"id":50092,"date":"2025-11-14T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50092\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:25:11","slug":"no-more-chicas-locas-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/50092\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Chicas Locas In El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The troubled gentleman&#8217;s club on El Paso&#8217;s east side has shut down completely\u00a0but still faces legal issues with the city of El Paso.<\/p>\n<p>According to their attorney, the owners &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/chicas-locas-chooses-to-close-for-good-city-of-el-paso-continues-legal-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">don&#8217;t want to do business in the city of El Paso<\/a>&#8221; and have closed down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chicas.el.paso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicas Locas<\/a>, (formerly Jaguars), for good. They are are also selling the building.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being closed, the city of El Paso has filed a\u00a0temporary injunction against the business saying it was operating without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>In El Paso any business deemed a &#8220;sexually oriented business&#8221;, (SOB), strip clubs, adult book stores, adult video stores, adult theaters, etc,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotexas.gov\/assets\/Documents\/CoEP\/Planning-and-Inspections\/Applications\/License-Applications\/Sexually-Oriented-Business-License-Application.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">must obtain special permits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/klaq.com\/dispensary-strip-club-sunland-park-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strip Club + Dispensary = No Way Jose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The temporary injunction filed by the city claims that Chicas Locas was pretending to be a bikini bar while actually operating as a sexually oriented business, with allegations of topless or nude dancers interacting with customers.<\/p>\n<p>The city is asking the court to grant a temporary injunction, or prevent the business and its employees from operating a business at 11377 Gateway Blvd W, El Paso, Texas without a sexually oriented business license, and other conditions. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/chicas-locas-chooses-to-close-for-good-city-of-el-paso-continues-legal-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kfox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The club has faced other accusations in the past &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chicas Locas&#8217; lawyer denied the &#8220;stripping&#8221; allegations, saying that investigating officers said all the parts of the dancers bodies that needed to be covered, were covered. He added that the club intended to become a sexually oriented business and applied for a license to do so but were denied.<\/p>\n<p>The city says the club withdrew the application before a scheduled hearing could take place. Lots of he said, she said here but one thing is for sure, Chicas Locas is done.<\/p>\n<p>8 Strip Clubs That Have Closed Down in El Paso<\/p>\n<p>Yes we&#8217;ve have definitely seen strip clubs close down in El Paso; some as recently as March 2024. In fact we&#8217;ve seen over half a dozen places close down all over El Paso, Texas (and outside of El Paso).<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: Daniel Paulus<\/p>\n<p>More of the Funniest Yelp Reviews of An Atlantic City Strip Club<\/p>\n<p>This is our second foray into &#8220;naked women are our business&#8221; scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/catcountry1073.com\/author\/joekelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The troubled gentleman&#8217;s club on El Paso&#8217;s east side has shut down completely\u00a0but still faces legal issues with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,143,223],"class_list":["post-50092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-local-el-paso","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50092","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=50092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}