A 24-year-old Boulder man was arrested early Thursday at the Bustop Gentleman’s Club on suspicion he inappropriately touched a dancer whom he then threw “across the room,” according to Boulder police.
Andrew Scott Furst faces charges of unlawful sexual contact and third-degree assault after police were called to the strip club, 4871 N. Broadway, at 1:43 a.m. Thursday on a report of an assault involving a customer sporting a Mohawk hairstyle, according to police.
The alleged victim, a dancer at the club, said she was performing a lap dance for Furst in a “special room” at 1:40 a.m. with her manager watching from outside the room, police reported.
Furst tried to get the woman to go home with him, and she refused repeatedly, telling him several times not to touch her, according to the arrest report.
At one point during the dance, Furst grabbed the woman’s crotch, causing her to fall into his lap “in an attempt to get Mr. Furst’s hands off of her,” police reported.
The alleged victim said Furst then “threw” her across the room.
Craig Scheetz, the woman’s manager, told investigators that he saw Furst shove the woman “very hard” into a table, at which time he entered the room and confronted Furst, warning him that he was going to call police, according to the report. Furst left the business and walked toward the neighboring Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, at 4869 N. Broadway, police reported.
When police caught up with Furst, he told officers that the woman fell down during the lap dance and he “pushed her up.”
He told police he had bought the woman at least 10 alcoholic drinks that night and that’s why she fell down, according to the police report.
Investigators said they could smell alcohol on Furst’s breath but did not smell any alcohol on the woman’s breath, and she told them she doesn’t drink because she has to pick up her daughter after work.
Furst is being held at the Boulder County Jail on $1,500 bail.
He made his first appearance in a jail courtroom Thursday afternoon and is scheduled to return to court June 8.
