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Log In. Please note: This feature is available only to subscribers; make sure you're logged in if you want to follow a story. Log In Subscribe. A mother and son suspected of human trafficking and pimping in Rohnert Park and Santa Rosa were arrested Friday after multiple women told undercover police officers they were part of a prostitution ring run by the pair, according to a news release from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety.
Police said that David Romesburg, 37, and his mother, Fay Romesburg, 59, were running the prostitution ring out of a Rohnert Park apartment, a Santa Rosa home and their soon-to-open Rohnert Park business called Black Cat Industries β listed as a gaming and karaoke studio. The investigation began when the manager of a Rohnert Park apartment complex in the block of Snyder Lane became suspicious of what seemed to be a constant cycle of men entering and exiting an apartment rented by David Romesburg, police said.
After being alerted to the activity, Rohnert Park officers found similar complaints had been made to the Santa Rosa Police Department about a home where the Romesburgs lived on Alvarado Avenue near Doyle Community Park.
Meanwhile, search warrants were served at the Santa Rosa home and at the Rohnert Park business, where it appeared private rooms were being constructed, the release said. At the Santa Rosa home, officers spoke with women who said David Romesburg would post ads and then send the women to meet the clients.
