TripAdvisor 'dirtiest hotel' owner: Arrested on child porn charge

The owner of the Desert Inn hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla. - recently named one of TripAdvisor's 10 dirtiest hotels in the USA - has been arrested in connection with a child pornography case, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports.

The arrest follows a month-long investigation by the FBI and local police that was prompted by a 13-year-old boy's complaint.

On Wednesday, about 70 FBI agents and police officers raided the hotel, the News-Journal says. They arrived seeking evidence that Dennis Devlin, 57, and a 20-year-old hotel employee hired the boy to perform sex acts on video.

"I think he (Devlin) uses the hotel as a front for other sex crimes," Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood told city commissioners Wednesday night. "What I do know is that this (the hotel) is a den of iniquity."

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