Tampa Adult Entertainment: City board orders owners to clean up drug-infested motel
November 25, 2009But Tampa police say the site of the Luxury Motel at 4608 E. Hillsborough Ave. has, for more than a decade, been a magnet for illegal drug sales, prostitution and other criminal activity, including two standoffs with law enforcement officers that ended in gunfire.
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Board members closed down the Honky Tonk Bar at 4309 N. 34th St. for about a year in 1998, to put an end to constant complaints about rampant drug sales on the property. And in 2004, the board forced a lingerie modeling shop to install video cameras and remove doors from modeling rooms after three prostitution arrests occurred there.
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The ruling was based on lawsuits filed by business owners in Miami and St. Petersburg whose properties were seized by a nuisance board over drug sales and prostitution.