Tampa Adult Entertainment: City puts ‘nuisance’ label on motel

November 25, 2009

But Tampa police say that for more than a decade the Luxury Motel at 4608 E. Hillsborough Ave. has been a magnet for drug dealing, prostitution and other criminal activity, including two standoffs with law enforcement officers that ended with gunfire.
In 2000, the motel was sold to Charles and Ella Grubbs, but police say drug dealers and prostitutes still use the property.
So after building a case against the owners for more than a year, the police department took them before the city’s seldom-used Public Nuisance Abatement Board.

Several undercover police officers and detectives testified to a long list of documented drug buys and prostitution stings that involved people operating out of the motel.

One of the group’s main functions is to hear cases about properties with a history of drug sales, gangs, prostitution and dealing in stolen property.

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