Norman Wielsch, the former Contra Costa County drug czar currently under investigation for selling confiscated narcotics, is back in the news today after his former accomplice Chris Butler ratted him out for running a brothel in a Pleasant Hill business park. According to CBS5 Butler, the fame-whoring private investigator who employed a gaggle of hot moms to trap cheating husbands, has admitted to renting out the office space in Pleasant Hill and hiring working girls to staff the rubdown joint. A neighbor's complaints about scantily-clad women and shady men coming and going during the day were referred to the Central Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Team (C-NET) - the team under Wielsch's command.

In Joe Vasquez's video report below, Wielsch's attorney calls the whole thing a ploy on Butler's part to get off on a lighter sentence. That part's probably true, actually. Butler is facing a whole mess of charges and could probably stand to lighten the load a little bit, but the fact that Wielsch's department was covering for him sounds pretty undeniable as well. Unfortunately, no one has picked up this story for a made-for-TV movie yet.

Previously on SFist: Contra Costa Narcotics Czar, MILF-Employing Private Investigator Busted for Dealing Drugs, Crooked CoCo County Drug Czar Walks Out of Lockup on Discounted Bail
[CBS5]