PLEASANT HILL, CA - The former police commander of Contra Costa County’s drug task force is accused of running a brothel.
PLEASANT HILL, CA — The embattled former commander of Contra Costa County’s drug task force Norm Wielsch, already charged with a slew of drug crimes, is now under investigation for allegedly running a brothel in a Pleasant Hill business park, sources told CBS 5 on Wednesday.
Over a period of nine months in 2009 and 2010, neighbors at the office park in the 600 block of Gregory called police repeatedly because of the women they observed working in one of the offices and the high-number of men coming and going from the building.
“(The women) were scantily dressed, provocatively dressed. Always totally made up… I thought it was prostitution for sure,” said Dr. David Atkinson, a chiropractor whose practice is also located in the office park.
CBS 5 has learned that state Department of Justice investigators are looking into a claim made recently in a written confession by private investigator Chris Butler that he and his friend, ex-police commander Norm Wielsch, were running a brothel at that location.
Wielsch and Butler have already been accused of stealing drugs confiscated by the Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team (C-NET) and re-selling them on the street, among other crimes.
According to two sources, Butler confessed to DOJ investigators that he rented the office space at 670 Gregory, Suite B and hired working girls. Shortly thereafter, in August of 2009, Pleasant Hill records indicate neighbors started calling police to report suspicious activity.
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