Tampa Adult Entertainment: City board orders owners to clean up drug-infested motel

November 25, 2009

But 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.

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.

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.

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