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North Plaza Inn closed permanently by judicial order
HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County — The North Plaza Inn, a source of frequent trouble in Dayton’s DeWeese-Ridgecrest neighborhood, will stay closed for a year, under a permanent injunction ordered Tuesday, Feb. 23.
The hotel, at 3636 N. Dixie Drive, just east of the Dayton-Harrison Twp. border. Neighbors have long complained that the hotel, which rented rooms for $29 a day, is known for drugs and prostitution.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price issued a temporary injunction and closing order on Nov. 18. The following day, Sheriff Phil Plummer and Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr. shut the hotel down, moving people out and changing the locks.
According to the permanent order Price signed Tuesday, attorneys for Empire Hospitality Group and the prosecutor’s office had agreed to the permanent injunction. Under the agreement, Empire and its employees are restrained from entering the hotel or the parking lot until Nov. 17.
The agreement eliminates the need for a civil trial to decide whether to shut the hotel down.
During the two and a half years before county authorities shut it down, the hotel was the site of 1,900 calls to the sheriff’s dispatch. What happened at the hotel rarely made media accounts. One exception was when Rachel White was arrested in April 2008 for prostituting her 17-year-old daughter at the hotel. White is now serving a 30-month prison term.
Empire is owned by Sridar Kadaba, a web site designer who works in Manhattan and lives in East Brunswick, N.J.
Last year, Price held a four-day hearing about problems at the hotel. According to a brief filed by assistant county prosecutor Victoria Watson:
— Kadaba’s property manager was arrested at the hotel Sept. 28 for felony violations.
— Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Haas testified he has seen Kadaba in the hotel’s Jacuzzi room “with several known prostitutes.”
— Haas testified that, on one occasion, a 3-year-old child at the hotel was stuck with a used hypodermic needle.
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