The meeting took place in an out-of-the-way coffee shop just after 9 p.m. — an hour before massage parlors in Kern County are required to close.
Sources had tipped off the three men — one faith leader in the community and two of his parishioners — that massage clients were being propositioned for sex at a west-side parlor. Neighbors had heard screaming. Others witnessed a naked man running out of the parlor's back door to his truck for his wallet. It was time to investigate....
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