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Larimer County Sheriff's Office, Department of Homeland Security investigated Mark's Leisure Massage

By Julia Rentsch
Reporter-Herald Staff Writer


Mark Brinkman (Larimer County Sheriff's Office)


Following a four-month investigation into attempted sex crimes against children and prostitution, Larimer County Sheriff's Office investigators on Thursday arrested the owner of a Loveland massage business on multiple felony allegations.

According to a LCSO news release, the Sheriff's Office booked Mark Thomas Brinkman, 54, into the Larimer County Jail on Thursday on the following allegations:

• Enticement of a child, a class 4 felony.

• Criminal attempt sexual assault on a child, a class 5 felony.

• Conspiracy to commit sexual assault on a child, a class 5 felony.

• Internet luring of a child, a class 4 felony.

• Pandering, a class 3 misdemeanor.

• Prostitution, a class 3 misdemeanor.

At the time of the news release, LCSO had not yet set a bond amount.

In June, LCSO investigators were alerted to suspicious activity involving Brinkman and his business, Mark's Leisure Massage, formerly at 1530 N. Boise Avenue, Unit 203D and more recently out of his home in Loveland. Investigators received a report that Brinkman was advertising illegal massage services involving sexual acts, according to the release.

During the investigation, an undercover Department of Homeland Security special agent contacted Brinkman regarding his services, and he agreed to perform illegal sexual acts on the agent and a fictitious minor.


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Anyone with information about Brinkman or Mark's Leisure Massage that may assist investigators is asked to call investigator Justin Atwood at 970-498-5143.

The charges are merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until, and unless, proven guilty.

Julia Rentsch: 970-699-5404, [email protected]


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