Arizona strip clubs swindled $1M from customers in elaborate scheme: lawsuit

Nearly 20 people claim they were fleeced out of more than $1 million at a chain of Arizona strip clubs in the Scottsdale area after they were drugged.

Christina Coulter is a U.S. and World reporter for Fox News Digital. Email story tips to christina.coulter@fox.com.

One alleged victim, an Air Force member stationed in Arizona who says his credit cards were charged just over $72,000, told the local outlet that the fallout of the incident has been "life and career-altering." The man, identified by Fox 10 as "Joe," claims that he was separated from his friends when he went to the bathroom before the night went awry.

"I remember walking through what I thought was a cloud of perfume or makeup or something like dusty from one of the kind of cracks of light that was coming through," the plaintiff told the outlet. "That’s when I ended up in the VIP room and started to get these symptoms not alcohol-related, something else that made me acquiesce and go along to what they seemed to be pushing."