>> over the last several years with msnbc in tow, in raid after raid, this massage parlor has been citedere the evidence of sex for sale is obvious. >> this is a house of prostitution. if you're just here for a massage, they don't want you there for a massage. they want the money for the extra service. >> built like a prison, sunflower's managers keep watch on six monitors. >> that's so the owner has security over the girls. they can't leave the facility. they know if they're coming or going. >> year after year, authorities including the fbi received reports of young foreign women being coerced into selling sex for cash at sunflower. >> there were so many signs of trafficking. there were living quarters found in the space, holes in the walls where women who were working as so-called massage practitioners were hiding because they didn't have licenses. >> the first was discovered behind a false wall in 2006. >> what is this? >> this is where they were sleeping previously. >> this was a room with a lot of mattresses. belongings, shoes. there could be about eight to ten people sleeping in th

>> yeah, when -- tonight when the massage parlor closes, where are you going to go?oing to sleep tonight? >> tonight? let me over there, next door. >> next door? >> yeah. in the apartment over there. >> oh. >> yeah. >> but after confronting the girl about luggage found at the massage parlor, a fellow masseuse makes a third claim, that she is just visiting and arrived last night. >> how long have you worked here? >> she came yesterday. >> just yesterday? >> yeah. yesterday. >> i have permit. >> do you have a permit? license? >> once of the officers thinks he recognizes her from an earlier inspection where they found her hiding in a hidden basement accessed by 18 by 18 inch hole in the floor at a different parlor. >> one of those girls seems really nervous. >> yes. she was the very one we saw at the pigeon hole the last time. >> the team calls in a vietnamese translator who discovers that the nervous girl is not from utah but orange county. she has a green card and has been in the country for 15 years. vice lieutenant mary petri is not surprised. >> it is not atypical.

the last two weeks. >> the women freed in the federal raid testified that they never left the massage parlorsd gates and elaborate security cameras monitoring their every move and conversation. walsh says there's no reason a legitimate massage establishment needs that kind of security. >> you're going to see these facilities that are built like ft. knox. you'll have like double iron gates, a buzzer to get in. there's cameras also throughout the facility, usually a hidden camera at the point of sale where the john goes and pays his $60. there will be cameras up and down the hallway, cameras at the back door. >> the last stop for the task force is a parlor on the brink of being shut down for repeatedly violating city laws and where the fbi recently searched but didn't find a woman who called claiming she was being held captive. the massage parlor denies employing trafficked women. >> come on out, health department. have a seat. >> have a seat. >> we'll be right back. >> who is the manager? >> a new city law requires massage therapists to keep their body covered from the neck down. when the wome

get rid of the massage parlor, while you're at it. i don't think the massage parlor comes under the entertainment commission. but they were not for it as well. so i got -- received letters in the very beginning, however, in the last week i do want the commission to know that i have received letters that miss garland has spoken about that was from david villalobos from community leadership alliance as well as michael nolte, alliance for a better district six, and then as told by mr. castellano, that michael has changed his position on the protest. so i think these speakers will speak in front of you. as far as central station, we're recommending a denial. >> remind me again, what's the cross street here on post? >> jones. >> jones, ok. commissioners, any questions of officer matthias? >> i just want to clarify, you are recommending a denial based on the traffic congestion, noise, those two main areas? >> the noise and then the community input. i mean -- and another thing as far as the -- not so much the high crime rate. this is another

behind the doors of the spas, massage parlors, and cantinas teenage girls and young women sell themselves for cold cash. from high-end escort girls online to back alley mattresses behind a cantina, those who fight human trafficking say foreign and homegrown american girls commit these sex acts oftentimes against their will. theirs is a story that must be told. it's 10:00 a.m. in overcast houston, texas, and it seems like just another sleepy saturday morning at this airport hotel. but behind closed doors in room 106 investigators of harris county's human trafficking task force are laying a trap. >> what we're doing basically is just trying to hook up our camera equipment inside the room here and make sure we've got a clear shot. >> the camera is focused on this bed right here so this area, if you sit down, that's the best shot right there. >> undercover investigators set up their surveillance cameras and equipment. their target -- prostitutes, their pimps and the men who exploit them. >> we're looking at underage mainly. what i did is target the 18 to 20, 21-year-olds. >> investigators tro

this one is in front of a massage parlor. i do not know who sponsored that. maybe you can get a chair massage, anyway. and falling on commissioner miguel's comment about designs, -- following on commissioner miguel's, about design, i think 20th century's great. president fong: commissioner borden? commissioner borden: i do not know if you saw the article from director ram, but there was an article in the business times that talked about putting a giant dog on top of the building, and wouldn't it be great if corporate headquarters could buy the air rights above the building to make a contribution to the city to make a large sign? and i asked director ram, with a giant flying dhabi considered a sign antique -- would a giant flying dog be considered a sign? and he said that it would be. these corporations, when they have a presence and owning a building like that, they would like to have a sign. would a giant dog be art? could it be part? -- art? and we have talked before about having commission approval. it is an issue that comes up quite frequently. we always h

we have the documents detailing interviews with the madame who ran that massage parlor.r story for the first time. >> we had really hoped this would have never seen the light of day. >> they are firing back tonight. after the release of documents detailing statements she made to investigators. >> i think she was used. i think she continues to be used. >> reporter: frederick reamer says his client, jordi sims, is a victim used by two powerful names in law enforcement to make extra money. sims told doj agents butler approached her with the idea of opening a central massage parlor in pleasant hills. while welsh protected the business. warning sims of pending raids. >> he was in the position of warning them when and if there was going to be a decoy from the police visit that institution. >> reporter: sims told agents she and four other women who worked in the salon paid butler and welsh $500 a week. she said she alone earned anywhere from 100 to more than $1,000 a day. sims also claims welsh helped her beat a prior prostitution charge. she says he went to court with her and

we have documents detailing interviews with the woman who says she ran the illicit massage parlor. >> reporter: this was norman welsh last year when asked about allegations that connected the former head of contra costa county's narcotics task force to a brothel. >> no, i don't know. no, no. i never heard that. >> reporter: but newly obtained documents suggest otherwise. in interviews with investigators from the department of justice, the woman who says she ran the brothel spells out the alleged involvement of welsh and private investigator christopher butler. jordi simms told agents that butler approached her with the idea of opening the central massage parlor that provided customers with happy endings. while welsh protected the business, warning them of pending raids. butler and his attorney have acknowledged he was involved. >> it was an operation for six to nine month. and the proceeds went to mr. welsh. he had the expertise in running a brothel. >> reporter: simms told agents she and four other women who worked in the salon paid butler and welsh $500 a week. she said she alone ea

the book that just came out, "perfect alibi" has a whole story line involving massage parlors here in san francisco and how young people from asia are being exploited. and, you know, somebody said to me, i read this whole book and realized you had covered that, had done it defendantly, and then i realized you were making a point there. so i try not to beat my readers over head, but i do try to get some of that in. because i think that's important. if you're writing books about lawyers and about crime, you know, there are victims. and i do try to set the world right at the end when i possibly can. and that is, as i said earlier, the advantage of writing novels as opposed to trying real cases. the other point i would make -- and everybody's kind of touched upon it here a little bit. lawyers are not portrayed, in many cases, particularly positively in the media. and a lot of that we bring upon ourselves. but i would also point out that, you know, we all operate in an environment where you have to deal with the cards that are out there. aties cuss finch -- atticus finch didn't have to dea

sims told agents butler approached her about opening a massage parlor in pleasant hills, while welshcted the business. >> he was in a position of warning them when and if there was going to be a decoy from the police visit that institution. >> reporter: sims told agents she and others that worked in the salon paid butler and welsh every week. sims also claims welsh helped her beat a prior prostitution charge. she says he went to court with her and spoke with the prosecutor, getting the charges reduced. as thanks, she claimed she had a sexual encounter with welsh. >> this was the top police officer in contra costa county. he breached, in my opinion, every possible obligation he had as a police officer. as a human being. >> reporter: sims is embarrassed and regrettable. but he says, it's welsh and butler who really crossed the line. >> this is a classic case of victimization of a female. especially one that was needy. >> reporter: he says sims is ready to tell all she knows in court. >> welsh has denied knowing anything about the brothel. butler has admitted to taking part in the broth

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clothes for her scandalous new tv show, the client list, where she plays a mom who works in a massage parlor>> it's hot girls in lingerie all the time. never a bad show to watch. >> reporter: it debuts april 8th on lifetime. to get a lot of love, check out maxim magazines. >>> also tonight, jessica simpson. plus, the latest christie brinkley's latest court battle with her ex, peter cook. we'll have that and much more coming up on entertainment tonight. >> that's at 7:30 here on wjz 13. >>> this is sure to register a 10 on the baby scale. an endangered, clouded leopard gave birth to them yesterday. the unnamed brother and sister weigh only about a half a pound each. the zoo is asking the public to help name them. >> how about simply utterly adorable? >> won't fit on the birth certificate. >> look at that. what a thrill. >>> we're enjoying unseasonably warm weather today. can we order the same for tomorrow? >> get your first warning weather forecast next. ,,,,,,,,, >>> and this is johns hopkins, i assume, playing lacrosse out there. getting ready for their next big matchup. >> perfect for it.

. >>> some pleasant hill massage parlors are being rubbed out by new rules. under the new guidelines, only those certified can work in pleasant hill. they will have to get fingerprinted and pass a background check. >>> 7:39. well, this week walnut creek could take some steps to change its laws for businesses that sell alcohol. the new ordinance would send nuisance standards for restaurants and bars that serve alcohol and would hold business people responsible for repeated problems, including public drunkenness and disturb, the police. >>> well, the future of the animal shelter in palo alto is now in question. the city council talked about a proposal at the meeting lat night that would shut down the shelter on bayshore road and replace it with a car dealership. palo alto is considering the closure because mountain view plans to stop using the shelter later this year. the council didn't make a decision last night. now a city committee will consider that proposal. today, the board of supervisors will vote on a scaled had back plan for the america's cup race. the