Young Woman Offered Trip, Scheduled Visits for Cash & More, Cops Say

John Kenyon Jr., 67, of Bensalem, started as a customer, but progressed to much more, according to a police criminal complaint filed this week.

Falls Township police were dispatched to Fitz’s Bakery on Oxford Valley Road in the Langhorne section of the township on Friday, May 3 for a report of harassment.

A 22-year-old female employee of the bakery told responding officers a regular customer has been harassing her and recently wrote her a strange letter, according to court documents.

The woman told police she had only spoken with Kenyon about 4 to 5 times, but he had come in to see her about 10 times. She would usually have a co-worker tell the Bensalem man she was not working.

Starting when the woman worked at Frtiz’s Bakery in Croydon, Kenyon would come in and regularly talk with her. The comments gradually became more personal and grew in detail, police said. The woman told investigators the 67-year-old would know information she did not tell him.

Some of the information the woman told police Kenyon knew that she did not tell him:

• Her family lived in Wildwood, N.J.
• She had two sisters
• She was recently involved in a car accident
• Who she was currently living with

On her 21st birthday, Kenyon gave the woman a birthday card with $60 in it, police said. He also is alleged to have given her a “Princess Parking Only” sign, cheesecake, cake carrier, flashlights, pens, magnets and other gifts she did not want.

Despite requests from the young woman to not get her gifts, police said the 67-year-old continued until the Croydon Bakery closed down.

The young woman began working at the location of Oxford Valley Road and the strange behavior continued.

On May 3, Kenyon came into the bakery and gave the woman an envelope. Inside, the woman found $200 and a letter intended for her birthday, police said.

Police outlined the letter in court papers, which is Kenyon is quoted as calling a “pampering plan” for the woman.

According to court documents:

Kenyon offered to “contribute to her welfare” and said she was a “very beautiful girl and I have great desire for your companionship.” He proposed to take the woman to Los Angeles for 7 to 10 days, all expenses paid, and $500 extra cash. In addition, he offered to pay her for partial lost wages for the days she would need to take off.

On her birthday every year, he offered to give her $500, a dinner and a Friday through Sunday visit at his apartment. He would do the same for Christmas.

He also proposed two visits to his apartment every month from 7 p.m. until 1 a.m. He would pay her $200 per a visit, adding that visits would include “bed sports, girl’s rules apply.”

He said he worked at Lockheed Martin in Newtown Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. and told her the days he would off she could schedule visits.

Aside from leaving the address of his apartment, he said she could call, text or leave him a voicemail to let him know.

Investigators went to Lockheed Martin in Newtown last Thursday to speak with Kenyon, But, according to police, company officials said he does not work at Newtown or any other company facility.

Police then went to his Bensalem apartment. According to court documents, he told police there that he retired from Lockheed Martin nearly 10 year ago and worked at the King of Prussia facility, not Newtown.

When police spoke with him in his apartment, they noted in an affidavit that his shirt was on backwards. He sat down with the front of his body facing the back of the chair and his back facing the officers, police said.

Frequently glancing over his right shoulder to talk to investigators, Kenyon state without provocation that the letter was “on the risque side” and continued that it was her option to call him, police said. He also said since passing along the letter he has not visited the bakery or attempted to contact the woman.

As an officer asked how many times he saw the woman, he state once a year, police said. All the while, he commented he was unsure of her situation but said her family lived in Wildwood and that she resided with an uncle in Bucks County, according to court documents.

“I’ll be the first to admit it’s an oddball letter,” Kenyon is quoted as telling officers in court papers.

As the conversation progressed, police said the 67-year-old called the letter a “shopping list.”

Kenyon said the woman was unhappy with her living situation and he could offer her the financial means she needed to charge that, police said.

He then said,” She has a big head of hair,” and that she would likely have a “nice time in here, in the bathtub, washing her hair.”

He also said officers might have some concerns about people in the neighborhood.

Police found a Philadelphia School District identification badge in a bowl in Kenyon’s apartment and asked if he was a teacher or an employee. He said no, according to police. He later admitted to walking for the district for a “short period of time.”

In the same area as the badge, police said they found four unused condoms, and a baggie containing either woman’s underwear or bikini bottoms. Kenyon described the clothing items to police as something a pole dancer would wear.

Kenyon told police he bought the outfit online and knew “some girls” that would wear it.

Kenyon was arrested Tuesday on a single charge of misdemeanor harassment and sent to Bucks County jail on 10 percent of $450,000 bail by District Judge Jan Vislosky.