The Columbus Dispatch
Two and a half years after police warned a Galloway man that a home he owns in the Hilltop was the site of drug dealing and other felony criminal activity, the city of Columbus obtained a court order Tuesday declaring the property a public nuisance.
Frederick D. George, who is in his 60s, signed the agreement order in Franklin County Environmental Court granting a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to evict the tenants and board up the property at 135 N. Burgess Ave.
In a court document, Zach Gwin, an assistant city attorney in City Attorney Zach Klein s office, listed numerous police runs to the property after the Dec. 11, 2018 warning by certified mail to George of drugs and guns found during a search warrant executed there in December 2018.
Moments Grill and Lounge on the Southeast Side has certainly had its moments over the last two years, according to Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein.
Since March 2019, Klein says the bar at 2545 Petzinger Road in a neighborhood shopping center near Route 33 and Interstate 70 East has been the source of more than 100 police complaints and calls for service.
Among those calls have been seven shootings, a stabbing, seven felonious assaults, a drug overdose, eight felony thefts, some 20 disturbances and more, Klein s office reported in a news release.
In one of these shooting incidents on July 10, the victim was a Columbus police officer working as a special duty security guard.
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The Columbus City Attorney s Office boarded up eight properties Friday tied to an accused pill-mill doctor, including one-half of a duplex that was the site of two homicides.
All eight properties are owned by Jose Villavicencio, of the Southeast Side. Villavicencio is a former doctor who was stripped of his medical license in 2012 for operating a pill-mill clinic at the South German Village Medical Center, 1730 S. High St.
The eight properties were boarded up Friday after the city attorney s office obtained an emergency order Thursday from Franklin County Environmental Court, a specialized, court created to streamline oversight and adjudication of housing code violations.
Columbus shutters 8 properties tied to pill-mill doctor, including site of 2 homicides
By Bethany Bruner - The Columbus Dispatch (TNS)
The Columbus City Attorney’s Office boarded up eight properties Friday tied to an accused pill-mill doctor, including one-half of a duplex that was the site of two homicides.
All eight properties are owned by Jose Villavicencio, of the Southeast Side. Villavicencio is a former doctor who was stripped of his medical license in 2012 for operating a “pill-mill” clinic at the South German Village Medical Center, 1730 S. High St.
The eight properties were boarded up Friday after the city attorney’s office obtained an emergency order Thursday from Franklin County Environmental Court, a specialized, court created to streamline oversight and adjudication of housing code violations.