Don't try this at home kids.

Woman ran strip club and brothel in Ferguson home, officials say.

FERGUSON • It had everything you might find in a classic strip club — a pole for dancing, full bar, security and a VIP room.

But this club operated by invitation in a one-story brick bungalow in a residential neighborhood in Ferguson, according to court documents.

The VIP room was really the bedroom of a teenage boy. He was the bartender.

And the home's occupant was promoting prostitution, federal prosecutors say.

St. Louis County police raided the home, in the 400 block of Warfield Avenue, early last month, seizing alcohol, condoms, a small amount of cash and other items.

Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the occupant, Carmen A. Fluker, 42, on a single felony charge of promoting prostitution.

Fluker, reached by phone Tuesday, said authorities “lied on me, tried to set me up” and then referred questions to her attorney. The lawyer, Daniel Brown, could not be reached.

Fluker's indictment is spare, saying simply that between May 2011 and April 3, 2014, she used the facilities of interstate commerce to promote prostitution.

But search warrants used by St. Louis County police in raids of Fluker's homes in April and in 2011 go further.

In the most recent warrant, Detective Michael Slaughter wrote that he was contacted by a tipster in March, who reported that Fluker was hosting nightly parties featuring nude dancers, liquor sales, drug use and a VIP room for private dances and sex.

The tipster said that Fluker sent text messages to prospective patrons and dancers when she was going to be open.

The tipster, wearing a hidden video camera, went to the club twice, recording Fluker explaining the operation and saying she planned to move the VIP room from her son's room to her own, which boasted room for a chair and a door with a lock.

In the second visit, Fluker tells a customer that hard liquor is $5 and beer is $4, with a cover charge of $10 on Fridays and Saturdays and $5 the rest of the week.

In the 2011 search warrant affidavit, Slaughter said that Fluker and her then-husband were running the “Yes We Can Social Club” out of a house in Bel-Ridge that also featured drinks and nude dancers. Two confidential informers went into the club and told police they saw nude dancers and what appeared to be a 10-year-old boy cooking food and working the bar. They bought drinks, shot video and one bought marijuana and lap dances over the course of several visits, Slaughter wrote.

In August 2011, police raided the club and made 30 arrests, but online court records show no charges against Fluker or her then-husband. At the time, police seized two pistols and a rifle, along with cash, documents and other items.

The 2014 search warrant says that the searchers also found an underage girl involved in dancing and VIP room activities.

Fluker will be in court today and is expected to plead not guilty to the charge. She told court staff Monday that she is unemployed and her income from food stamps and disability payments does not cover her expenses.

A neighbor across the street, who identified herself as Miss E. Brown, said she knew Fluker had occasional birthday parties at her home, but scoffed at the idea that she was running a club seven nights a week