Bay City News Service

The former head of the Contra Costa County drug task force may have run a Pleasant Hill brothel.

According to KGO, former Antioch police officer and private investigator Chris Butler claims in a 34-page statement that he and the task force's former leader Norman Wielsch ran a brothel on Gregory Lane called "My Devine Skin." CBS reported that over a period of nine months between 2009 and 2010, neighbors at the office park repeatedly compained to police about scantily-clad women working in the building and their high number of male visitors.

“(The women) were scantily dressed, provocatively dressed. Always totally made up… I thought it was prostitution for sure,” Dr. David Atkinson, a nearby chiropractor, told reporter Joe Vasquez.

The two are already in trouble for allegedly selling drugs from the evidence room, among other alleged misdeeds.

Wielsch's attorney, Michael Cardoza, refuted the brothel allegations, accusing Butler of making up the story to reduce his anticipated prison sentence.

"Butler admits apparently that he went to buy the furniture, that he signed the lease, he ran the place, and he collected the money, but 'it wasn't me and I gave all that money to other people, I didn't keep but a very small part of it.' If you want to believe that I have bridges and oceans that I would like to sell you pieces of," Cardoza said.