It looked like any other home in Fremont, but police say it was a brothel

FREMONT — It was a nondescript home at the corner of Feliz Court and Portola Drive, in a residential neighborhood full of green lawns, gardens and one-story dwellings.

But Fremont police say this neighborhood held a lewd secret. One of the houses was secretly operating as a brothel.

It all started last November, when a tipster told police they’d observed strange men coming to the home at all hours of the day and night, staying about 15 minutes, then exiting. The police investigation...