Profitable Cherry Pit swingers club is no casual affair, say

DUNCANVILLE The Cherry Pit is more than a weekend hangout for a few consenting adults.

For the owners of the swingers club, it's a profitable enterprise where sex, booze and guns collide. According to court documents released Wednesday, sex parties are held at the home in the 1300 block of North Cedar Ridge Drive every Friday and Saturday for 50 to 80 people, or 80 to 100 during special events and holidays. The documents showed that more than 7,000 people have attended parties there in the last year and that the owners can earn $10,000 per month. Duncanville is trying to shut down the Cherry Pit, which city officials say is an illegal sexually oriented business. City Manager Kent Cagle has said that investigators are building a larger case that also includes charges of organized criminal activity, prostitution, narcotics trafficking and money laundering. Cherry Pit's attorney, Ed Klein, said authorities have trumped up the charges against the Cherry Pit owners Jim Trulock and Julie M. Norris because the city's ordinance last fall targeting the business failed to shut its doors. "It's the shotgun approach. They're going to try to allege whatever they can and see what sticks," said Mr. Klein.

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[ruthlesswun]

aww come on! really!?!

[danstep2011]

@trngdwnthedvlskngdm He doesn't hate lemonade stands though, that's what's so stupid about this old man's comment. Rather than being envious of the neighbors he should be upset about the unamerican zoning laws and restrictions on such things as a lemonade stand!

[themeaningoflife38]

another case of FASCISM in the USA

[raven2feathers2003]

They'll find any excuse to shut us down ! It's true it is all about politics and who you know and if you don't like certain ppl then your buddies in politics will help you throw them out, it's crazy.

[TargetGuy2245]

If they don't want the business all they need to do is find one joint and you are screwed. It's about politics.

[scottn999]

and god bless George W. Bush, right?

[trngdwnthedvlskngdm]

I pray the city of Duncanville cleans this mess up, because you all will go from the Cherry pit to Hell's pit if you don't clean up your lives, ask God's forgiveness, turn from your wickedness and give your heart to God. Jesus saves and He can/will save you (that's if God's grace hasn't run out for you). God Hates Sin!!!

[sonnywestfan1]

Duncanville hopefully will lose their pants in court! I am a former regular and this is bull!