OGDEN -- An increase in police patrols in the Fort Buenaventura area is helping to decrease lewd acts being committed in the area.
"The increased patrols seem to be helping out with some of the traffic," Lt. Scott Conley said Friday.
Last month, patrols were increased at a parking area adjacent to Serge Simmons Field because of reports of suspicious-looking men sitting in vehicles waiting to meet other men for possible inappropriate rendezvous, police say.
Conley said community policing and uniform policing have stepped up patrols in the area and a horse patrol has been added.
"It's a full-force effort to curb the lewdness," he said.
Four men were arrested Thursday after police say they committed lewd acts in that area.
Police said officers were patrolling the area when they came across Wayne Wilcox, 50, and Ray Neilson, 48, involved in lewd behavior.
The two men were arrested and booked into Weber County Jail on suspicion of lewdness, a class B misdemeanor.
A short time later, officers came across two other men, Michael Deaton, 47, and Michael Harris, 48, who also were engaged in illicit behavior.
The two were arrested and booked into Weber County Jail on suspicion of lewdness.
Illicit behavior appears to have been going on in the wooded area near the parking lot for some time, Conley said earlier. Last year, police set up a video camera in the parking area that captured images of men leaving their vehicles, going into the woods together and then returning to their cars, but there wasn't enough video evidence to issue citations to anyone.
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