Before Spitzer was linked to a northern New Jersey prostitution ring, Cliffside Park residents dealt with the shock of human trafficking in their own neighborhood. NY1’s Jon Weinstein filed the following report.

Cliffside Park residents were shocked to learn of an alleged prostitution ring being operated out of an apartment building at 250 Gorge Road. But now they hardly believe that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer could have frequented the local call-girl service.

"Have I seen Governor Spitzer coming in here with, like, questionably-clad women? Nah, never seen anything like that before," said Brian Frank, a resident at 250 Gorge Road for the past three years.

Last Thursday morning, the FBI arrested 23-year-old Cecil Suwal of Cliffside Park and 62-year-old Mark Brener of Middlesex County, for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of the Cliffside Park apartment building.

"I came out about 7:30, 8 o'clock, just a ton of cars were out here, there were just guys with the jackets, the FBI," said local resident David Welinsky.

The back office operations for Emperors Club VIP, a high-end prostitution ring, were reportedly in Suwal's apartment in the Gorge Road building. According to the federal complaint, Suwal took care of day-to-day operations, while Brener allegedly was the group's decision maker.

The FBI also arrested two New York residents, 32-year-old Tameka Rachelle Lewis and 36-year-old Tanya Hollander, for their roles in the call girl service. All four have been charged in connection with serving wealthy male clients, including possibly Spitzer, with prostitutes in multiple cities.

Residents of 250 Gorge Road know little about the accused prostitution ring's leaders.

"Everybody I've asked in the building about who that person was, nobody even really seems able to point out who it is," Jeffrey Gatsik said. "So they must have kept a very low profile in the building."

"This is a very clean cut, beautiful building. The people are friendly, we get along and there's never been a problem here, and that's it," another resident told NY1. "The people were just living here, what they did in their apartment nobody knows."

As the New York governor continues to do damage control, residents hope that this scandal does not destroy the reputation of their building.

Sources tell NY1 Brener and Suwal are still in federal custody. Brener is being held without bail and Suwal has not posted her bail yet. Lewis and Hollander, the two New York residents, have been released.

- Jon Weinstein