CHARLOTTE, N.C. The Charlotte-Douglas International Airport overlook is under police surveillance after reports of men engaging in sex acts with each other while families are nearby.
Witnesses say the acts are frequent and sometimes blatant.
It doesn't take long for cars parked in the back of the overlook on Old Dowd Road to leave as soon as there's a camera pointed at them.
Yeah, I did notice that, said April Campbell, who was at the overlook Friday with her mother and daughter.
We don't know what the people in the cars were doing. But, the back row is a known male sex hookup spot. Police and a homosexual hookup website that offers overlook tips and warnings both say so.
Campbell has been coming here for years and is now passing on a family tradition to daughter Allison.
She just loves to watch the big planes take off and hear how loud it is, Campbell said.
She's weary of the cars in the back, pulling up to each other and moving on to the next car.
Are they going to come and attempt something in front of your kids? That's why I don't come down here anywhere near dark, said Campbell.
Police charged Pastor Clinton Feemster two weeks ago for soliciting sex from an undercover officer at the overlook.
Feemster's police report says the incident happened shortly after 4 p.m. in the afternoon and families were at the overlook.
Police say there are numerous complaints about the activity there.
I would say at least ten, says a woman about the number of times she has seen men engaged in sex at the overlook.
She is there a couple times a week as part of her job.
It was very obvious what they were doing. There was no tint on the windows, she said.
After a while, cars returned and parked in the back row Friday.
One of them included a man sitting in the back seat of an SUV with shirts covering the windows.
It makes me feel at least a little bit safer to bring her down here during the day, Campbell said about police surveillance.
Police aren t saying how long the overlook has been or will be monitored.
