Vacaville man to stand trial in massage parlor pimping case - Fairfield Daily Republic

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FAIRFIELD — A 23-year-old Vacaville man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on two pairs of felony pimping and pandering charges.

With his mom and dad looking on in the courtroom, Michael A. Pacheco listened to police testify at his probable cause hearing about his boasting of running a pseudo Alamo Drive massage parlor until one afternoon in September 2015 when Detective Steve Collins stopped by to deliver a city massage business permit.

Collins recounted talking to the two Korean women in the business, neither with massage therapy certificates or trained in massage. One of them described the “base rate” Pacheco would collect for customers who would then retire to private rooms for massages where tips would be negotiated.

One of the women described arranging for eight to 10 customers a day for her and then taking all the proceeds at the end of a long day’s work.

Another detective described talking with Pacheco, who was found in a back room of the business without his shoes and with a pile of clothes next to a bed. Pacheco is described as the “king” of a classified advertising website that is frequently used for prostitution because of all the ads he posted on the website for the women’s massages, according to police testimony.

As the officers testified, a quick check of the website’s ads revealed three ads showing off partially clad, comely young Asian women working at Vacaville massage parlors on Alamo Drive, East Monte Vista Avenue and Orange Drive. Two of the parlor also advertised escort services.

Pacheco was ordered to return to court March 29 to be arraigned on the felony charges. He remains out of jail on $35,000 bail.

Reach Jess Sullivan at 427-6919 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jsullivandr.

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