A three week prostitution sting lead to a pair of arrests in a very unlikely place. Jeffrey and Lorraine Jenks were behind bars on Tuesday. The couple has been married for than 20 years, and police say together the pair made thousands of dollars running a brothel out of their Cedar Hills home at 4527 West 9900 North.
American Fork Police said the pair advertised on the Internet that Lorraine provided "therapeutic massage," but it turns out customers got much more than that. Including sex acts allegedly performed by Lorraine, while police said, her husband ran the business and collected the payments.
Police also said Jeff kept a very close eye on his wife of 20 years and her clients "There was video surveillance set up in the room so if he chose to he could stand in the other room and watch what was going in in the room he was very much involved in the process," sid Lt. Darren Falslev of the American Fork Police Department.
Police said the couple kept a rigorous calender, scheduling between 2 and 5 appointment on several days of the week, and they charged big bucks for the "massage." "You're talking a couple hundred dollars a visit probably a couple visits a day over the course of four months you're talking thousands of dollars," said Falslev. Police estimate, the couple made at least $60,000 in that four month period.
Police were tipped off by neighbors who say they saw too many cars traveling through their quiet neighborhood. One woman who lives nearby, but didn't want to be identified, said she was certain something illegal was going on in the home. "Cars coming and going, 5 and 6 a day, stay an hour an hour and a half," she said.
She went on to say there were plenty of men coming through her neighborhood on a regular basis and they all looked like they had money to spend. "Most of the guys that came where well dressed guys, they came in nice fancy cars, most of them looked like businessmen," she saids.
After neighbors complained, police investigated the house for three weeks, then arrested the couple.
Police say the pair needed the money. According to court records the Jenks had dozens of financial judgments against them.
Police say the couple have four children, all of them either teenagers or in their 20's. Police say all the kids lived in the home but didn't have a full understanding of what their parents where allegedly up to.
The couple was arrested but posted bail. Charges are expected in the next week or two .
