diff --git a/src/plugins/buildQuery.js b/src/plugins/buildQuery.js
index a87d637535..3864778539 100644
--- a/src/plugins/buildQuery.js
+++ b/src/plugins/buildQuery.js
@@ -5,14 +5,11 @@ export default function buildQuery(schema) {
   schema.statics.apiQuery = function (rawParams, locale, cb) {
     const model = this;
     const params = paramParser(this, rawParams, locale);
-    console.log('parsed params', params);
 
     // Create the Mongoose Query object.
     let query = model
       .find(params.searchParams);
 
-    console.log('after query find');
-
     if (params.sort)
       query = query.sort(params.sort);
 
@@ -40,7 +37,7 @@ function paramParser(model, rawParams, locale) {
       query = parseParam(key, rawParams[key], model, query, locale);
     } else {
       for (let i = 0; i < separatedParams.length; ++i) {
-        query = parseParam(key, separatedParams[i], model, query);
+        query = parseParam(key, separatedParams[i], model, query, locale);
       }
     }
   }
@@ -105,7 +102,7 @@ function parseParam(key, val, model, query, locale) {
 
 function parseSchemaForKey(schema, query, keyPrefix, lcKey, val, operator, locale) {
   let paramType;
-  const key = keyPrefix + lcKey;
+  let key = keyPrefix + lcKey;
 
   let matches = lcKey.match(/(.+)\.(.+)/);
   if (matches) {
@@ -119,7 +116,8 @@ function parseSchemaForKey(schema, query, keyPrefix, lcKey, val, operator, local
     }
   } else if (typeof schema === 'object' ) {
     if (schema.obj[lcKey].intl) {
-      query = addSearchParam(query, `${key}.${locale}`, val);
+      key = `${key}.${locale}`;
+      paramType = 'String'
     }
   } else if (typeof schema === 'undefined') {
     paramType = 'String';
diff --git a/src/requestHandlers/query.js b/src/requestHandlers/query.js
index a71deecb8f..3ce45e5aa7 100644
--- a/src/requestHandlers/query.js
+++ b/src/requestHandlers/query.js
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
 import httpStatus from 'http-status';
 
 const query = (req, res) => {
-  console.log('inside query');
-
   req.model.apiQuery(req.query, req.locale, (err, result) => {
     if (err) {
-      console.log('api query error', err);
       return res.status(httpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR).json({ error: err });
     }
-    console.log('no error inside api query');
     return res.json(
       result.map(doc => { //TODO: 'result.docs' will need to be used for the pagination plugin
         if (req.locale) {
@@ -17,7 +13,6 @@ const query = (req, res) => {
 
         return doc.toJSON({ virtuals: true })
       })
-
     );
   });
 };