MADISON, Wis. -- Even after a judge ordered it shut down due to illegal activity -- an apartment building on West Badger Road is still being rented out.

The city attorney is vowing to take further court action regarding the building at 910 W. Badger Road, which has long been targeted by the city and police for problems with drugs and prostitution.

The building has had more than 100 police calls since 2007 and was the location of a homicide last month of a young woman, WISC-TV reported.

Two weeks ago, a judge approved a long city-sought shutdown of the apartment building. But that apparently hasn't stopped a landlord from renting it out just three days after the judge issued the order, WISC-TV reported.

"We found that after the judge's order for the building to be closed on July 28, someone was rented an apartment in that building on July 31," said Capt. Jim Wheeler of the Madison Police Department.

On Aug. 3, Madison police officers said they arrested two men at the address who were trying to find a prostitute. But during the course of their investigation, the officers also found a family of four living there, including a single mother who told them that "on Thursday, July 31, she gave the building owner $1,100 for rent as a new tenant."

Police said the woman also signed a lease for one year even though the building was targeted to be shutdown within 30 days.

"She had asked the landlord if something was going on after we had contact with her on Aug. 3, and the landlord said, to my understanding, that nothing had happened to the building yet and that she had nothing to worry about," said Wheeler.

Assistant city attorney Jennifer Zilavy said the judge didn't sign the city shutdown until Aug. 6, but she said the targeted owner still violated the "spirit" of the order. Zilavy said the city "definitely will be taking (court) action to address this."

She called renting to a "pregnant woman with three children (in the middle of a shutdown) unconscionable."

WISC-TV found that there is currently a "for rent" sign out in front of the apartment building.