Come check out the GNC at 500 16th Street in Denver. Can this really happen in a GNC store?
Retired police officer Joseph Bini locked the door of his wife's downtown Denver store and refused to let two runaway girls leave until they completed sex acts in front of him to his satisfaction, investigators allege in an arrest warrant filed in Denver County Court.
During the encounter, both girls said they got scared and wanted to leave, but Bini refused to let them. Bini, 39, was the focus of intense publicity nine years ago when he provided SWAT team officers the wrong address of a house where drugs where allegedly being sold. In the resulting no-knock raid on the wrong home, a man in the house, Mexican immigrant Ismael Mena, was shot and killed after he pointed a .22-caliber handgun at police.
Bini was charged with first-degree official misconduct, a misdemeanor, and sentenced to 12 months' probation. The city settled a lawsuit by Mena's family for $400,000.
The latest incident, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, occurred May 21.
The two runaways said they were on the 16th Street Mall and wanted to meet the lady on a poster at the GNC store at 500 16th Street. As they were looking at the poster, Bini approached and told the girls that the lady was his wife and she worked there.
One of the alleged victims said Bini started talking to them. He said that "what he would really like to see is two young" girls having sex together, the affidavit said. The girls said Bini — who was wearing a name tag with "Joe" on it — knew they were runaways and hungry.
At that point, according to investigators, Bini offered to pay the girls $20 if they would have sex in front of him. They agreed. He led them to a back room and locked the front door. As the girls engaged in sex, they claimed Bini exposed himself and began moving closer to them and started to touch one of them.
She knocked his hand away and told him not to do that. By then, they said, they had gotten scared and wanted to leave, but Bini wouldn't let them. Bini is currently under investigation for child enticement and unlawful sexual contact, both Class 4 felonies. He is free on a $75,000 bond.
