Posted on 08/10/2022 10:57:39 AM PDT by grundle
One community says a local gas station is littered with crime. From violence to prostitution to drugs, police are responding to the gas station on average every few days.
Now business owners are neighbors are coming together to try to close it.
The thought among a group of concerned neighbors and business owners is that getting a judge to agree to shut down the business will solve the crime problem.
But one woman is warning about the impact a shut down would have.
There is no debate there is an issue at this Citgo on Martin Luther King Drive in Adamsville.
“We got prostitution going on, you’ve got stabbings, you’ve got people selling drugs,” business owner Ricky Brown said.
“It’s been a lot of shootings, a lot of things going on right here in this one little area,” neighbor Cynthia Douglas told Channel 2′s Candace McCowan.
In fact, Atlanta police have been called to the store 73 times between January and mid-July for everything from prostitution, to robbery, to drug possession.
Investigators are still looking for the suspect who shot two people at the store two weeks ago. But there is disagreement on how to solve the crime issue.
The city of Atlanta along with a group of neighbors are taking the tenant and the landlord to court next week. They want the business shut down.
“The property is kind of being not maintained, that’s going to always get crime,” business owner Marcus Mitchell said.
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Sounds like a lot of diversity...of crime.
Yeah, gas stations cause crime. Just like guns shoot by themselves and cause mass school murders.
My son is looking at Georgia Tech. Is that anywhere near this hellhole?
Nothing good ever happens on MLK boulevard...
They may get the store closed, but the criminals will still be there.
My town has a nuisance property ordnance. Get enough calls of a certain type and the Village will move to seize it.
Straightened our little neighborhood up right quick it did.
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MaimingLootingKilling Drive......
The most interesting thing here is the local action. We need more local justice. We used to have local JUSTICE OF THE PEACE who lived in the community.
I have never heard of such a thing on Martin Luther King Drive anywhere in the US
Rule of thumb is avoid the part of town containing an MLK Boulevard.
robbers rob banks because that’s where the money is
i guess cops aren’t as smart as bank robbers or they’d campout there...
Has anyone ever done crime statistics for streets named after MLK relative to the surrounding communities?
Martin Luther King Drive-By
My son is looking at Georgia Tech. Is that anywhere near this hellhole?
...Anything in the Atlanta city limits should be off limits...Send him to The University of Georgia....great school, great football team, great looking women ( no facial hair or armpit hair.
Sounds like those White Supremist are at the root of the problem.
I can’t wait to hear the complaints about “Motor Fuel Deserts”.
On day two these low IQ clowns will be bitching about "gas deserts" and "lack of investment in the community."
The neighbors are racists. They don’t want to be culturally enriched.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Atlanta.”
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