Troubled Desert Inn Hotel still magnet for race fans

News 13 Sunday 13th February, 2011

highly publicized arrest of its operator on sex charges. Many?Desert Inn guests knew nothing about the arrests for child porn charges. Race fans who witnessed drama on the speedway Saturday night are now learning of a drama that played out ten days ago in the same hotel they're staying in. "I had no clue. None whatsoever," said race fan Jeff?Brownell.? FBI and local police raided the Desert Inn arresting hotel operator Dennis Devlin, who's now facing federal charges of producing and possessing child pornography. Investigators found DVD's and an iPhone allegedly showing Devlin recording a 13-year-old boy in the nude. Devlin is in federal prison with no bond. The Desert Inn's marquee had a vacancy sign at a time when more than a half million race fans pour into Daytona Beach. Wo...

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