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Article Courtesy of News4Jax
By Vic Micolucci
Published January 26, 2021
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JACKSONVILLE – It’s a luxury home in a gated country club complete with a
sparkling pool and nestled between million-dollar properties that back up to a
golf course.
But according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, this glamourous home in
Deerwood Country Club was being used as a brothel.
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“It speaks to the
point of this could happen anywhere,” said Mike Bruno,
director of investigations at JSO. “No neighborhood is
immune from it. No one is immune from it.”
Police had been getting tips from concerned neighbors, as
did News4Jax. Research of the address shows Anna Domino, 50,
was living there and renting the well-kept property.
A social media account lists her name as “Madame D.” Her
group was listed as “The Prostate Queens.” There were
numerous online accounts with sexually explicit videos, some
that appear to include the high-end home on Hunters Grove
Road, which she refers to online as the “fungeon.” |
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The home showed up on a real estate site with rent listed at $4,000 a month.
Detectives arrested Domino and another woman on Tuesday. Domino is charged
with maintaining a home for prostitution, soliciting for prostitution and
running an illegal adult business.
The other woman, 41, was also arrested on a charge of soliciting for
prostitution. News4Jax is not naming her because investigators said it’s
unclear whether she was a victim of human trafficking.
“Obviously, our first goal was to get into the house, figure out what’s
going on and make the first round of arrests and to stop this type of
activity and protect the girls,” Bruno said.
Bruno noted there were approximately six women living in the home. He said
there are concerns an operation like this could be linked to human
trafficking.
“They’re at the end of their rope and it is just sad,” he said. “We’ve
looked at the human trafficking element. It just doesn’t sit well with me
because these women may not even know that they are a victim of that because
obviously someone is making money off of what they’re doing.”
Last week, Bruno was part of a joint push for Human Trafficking Awareness
Month between the Sheriff’s Office, FBI and State Attorney’s Office. He said
in 27 years of law enforcement, he’s never seen anything like this.
As News4Jax visited the house Thursday, people were seen going in and out of
the home. One man said he was hired to help with moving furniture. News4Jax
also spotted a man hunched on a tree branch in the front yard, about 15 feet
off the ground.
Guests have to be invited go through security and show ID to get into
Deerwood. A request for comment from the manager of the homeowners
association Thursday afternoon was not immediately returned.
A records request shows JSO officers received nine calls for service at the
home over the past two years. Those included a “drug investigation” with a
felony arrest, a “dispute” and a “warrant.”
The JSO Vice Unit continues to investigate the case and noted that more
arrests are possible.
Domino is being held in jail on $25,000 bond. Her arrest history shows
previous charges in Tampa, Tennessee and Georgia for domestic battery,
assault, drugs, theft and resisting police.
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