Home Unsold, Mortgage Brokers Open Brothel

Police: Westchester Couple, Unable To Sell House, Turn It Into A House Of Prostitution

(CBS/AP)  The downturn in the housing market appears to have driven two New York homeowners to desperate, illegal measures when their house went unsold.

Police say the Westchester County couple, both mortgage brokers, turned their home into a brothel.

Robert Werner, 34, and Heather Mazzenga, 32, were arrested at the three-bedroom home Friday night and were charged with promoting prostitution. Four women, ranging in age from 21 to 30, are charged with misdemeanor counts of prostitution and practicing massage without a license.

All six are free on bail.

New Rochelle Police Lieutenant George Rosenbergen would not say how police learned of the alleged operation.

The house, they say, had been turned into a brothel complete with a red ribbon placed out by the sidewalk to indicate they were open for business.

Werner and Mazzenga moved out of the house roughly two years ago so they could begin renovating a home on Mountain Road in Pleasantville.

New Rochelle neighbors told CBS Station WCBS the house had originally been listed for $750,000 but didn’t sell even after the price had been dropped to $600,000. The house was rented to families who came and left, and then fell into neglect until new neighbors arrived about two weeks ago.

The lawn was mowed. Heavy windowshades were put up.

A neighbor, David Saperstein, told WCBS correspondent Lou Young that he never saw the new neighbors. "But at night there’s five, six, seven cars there," he said.

Natalie Nanzo told Young she'd even considered buying the house when it was first put on the market. She couldn't get over talk that the North Avenue home was allegedly a house of ill-repute.

"I’m in shock," Nanzo said, "because these people were business people. I can’t believe they would be involved in prostitution."

The alleged brothel sits across the street from a museum dedicated to Thomas Paine, the author of 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense," that helped rouse the nation to war.

It's the second alleged sex-for-sale bust in a premiere Westchester neighborhood this year. In February, Bedford police accused dominatrix Sandra Chemero of running a prostitution business out of her home - which she rented from a local yeshiva.

[gopack443]

victim?

[toldyouso21]

Hey...ya gotta do, what ya gotta do. The rent/mortgage was due.....some people will do ANYTHING to keep from losing ground financially.

Everyone prostitutes some part of their body in a way huh? Whether it is their mind, their personality (talk shows), their legs or arms (atheletes) or some other skills--we all are selling body parts--too bad some are so puritan that some stuff can be given away for free but can never be valued or sold. LOL

[tnt1954]

it''s gotta come to trial. what would you
do if you were the judge? jury trial of peers?
innocent till proven guilty. and what
if they are guilty. why don''t you go out
and close every motel and hotel in this
mojo world then, you canniving hypocritical
big fat swine. you sneaking around everyone''s
back, devious, chicanerous lyin lions who
belong in the lyins den of iniquity. espionage
is done this way. some islamic men came
in and gave away the secrets and its how
we got them before they got away. you dumb
bunnies of bunny dove. my bunny lies over the
ocean, my bunny lies over the sea, please
bring back my bunny to me. and besides, who
do you think you''re kidding. as if cops
are sexless. what a bunch of bulldungi. i suppose
you''re the angels of the lord eh? st. michael
and the archangels? c''mon, in new york city?
red light district? where its always time
to stop.

[tnt1954]

i realize that serpico would find the teleology
and means to the end wrong. but i commend
the wisdom and sagacity of the nypd administrative
vice and their rather creative methods.
fine job people. and furthermore the special
vice units deserve extra helpings of mashed
potatoes today at the cafeteria. with gravy.
soho can be hard even in england. after hours
was a dvd i recently saw. great movie. the
word processor finally made it home to his
desk at work, after hours and a night on the
town in soho. a teri garr movie. teri carr.
teri hope. the part where the neighborhood
watch committee goes after him is great.
artists band together to protect themselves
from outside intruders into the artiste lifestyle.
i rolled on the floor with seizures. thats nyc.
he did not have the right change for the token
for the subway. tuff luck buddy.

[mitywhity]

Everyone prostitutes some part of their body in a way huh? Whether it is their mind, their personality (talk shows), their legs or arms (atheletes) or some other skills--we all are selling body parts--too bad some are so puritan that some stuff can be given away for free but can never be valued or sold. LOL...Posted by toldyouso21...................................................................................................So, how much do you charge for a BJ?

[Krazcarl]

Mity Whity Goog very good. In tough economic times you have to be creative THIS WAS CREATIVE. My weak point with law is victumless crime set down by bible beaters and thier friends. Don''t we have enough crime where there are real victums shouldn''t we be putting our resources there oh that''s right we got a lefthitter senator lets set him up if there wasn''t a market people wouldn''t be selling but there is. Since I was a child they told me I was lucky to be in the freeest country in the world so agin were talking victumless crime if there is no victum what''s the crime.

[kansas1946]

What a grand idea. Turn an loser and an eyesore into a money-making, attractive, addition to the neighborhood. I never understood why prostitution should be illegal in the first place. A woman (or man) owns her own body, and should be able to profit from it. Now, if some rich guy had put his mistress up in the house and paid her for ***, everything would be okey-dokey. Americans are truly a schitzophrenic lot.

[agnim]

"Home Unsold, Mortgage Brokers Open Brothel"

LOL

There''s a house some place in New York

They call the raising sum

And it''s been the ruin of many a mortgage brokers

Lord, I know I could be one. LOL

[bb19631]

I dont agree one way or another about what this couple did, to save their house. I just think it is getting ridulous, when up standing people have to stoop so low to keep their lively hood. Farmers arent getting paid well for crops and milk they produce so they grow marijuana to supplement their income. Then in comes Johnny-Law to arrest people, trying to survive.

[kansas1946]

Agnim,
Now THAT was funny. The "House of the Rising Sum." LOL

[old5hita55]

That was stupid putting a red ribbon on the amilbox. Theyd still be making money if they hadnt of done that. They ort to have not charged any money upfront and just sent out a bill at the end of the month for something else like consultation fees or something like that. What coud the cops do about that? Nothing, because it would not be for money it woud just been for love.

[lastdance2]

RE : bb19631

It''s called - The result of - Job out-sourcing
It''s called - The result of - No more - Income Tax Base

Brought to you by :
The Republican (Nazi) Party
Criminal Corporate (Nazi) America

Lastdance

[fangdango-2009]

Snidegrass and Oakishpines both need to go back to ESL. I think they skipped a few lessons.

[michellem99-2009]

toldyouso21. Dear..your a smart lady. They are talking about a bloody w h o r e house. Us Mainers call it that. A Brothel. You know illegal House of Prostituion. Good graceious. Would you as a Mum allow your kin to visit a place like that..PURITANS...yes the bloody puritans. It may surprise you I never bought their rap.. Good folks just don''t...You from New England. Them puritans blind minded fools. I am 52. Them so called puritans if there were witches,they were. Puritans killed people out of their blind mind. I was called evil blind girl by them prritan bas*tards. I learnt fast they truly hated who is different.