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Crime-ridden hotel's fate to be decided by court action

The North Plaza Inn in Harrison Twp. was closed down Thursday November 20, 2009 by Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies claiming the Inn was filled with drug dealers and prostitutes.

Jim Noelker/Staff photographer The North Plaza Inn in Harrison Twp. was closed down Thursday November 20, 2009 by Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies claiming the Inn was filled with drug dealers and prostitutes.

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Sheriff's dispatch called to Harrison Twp. hotel 1,900 times

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By Lou Grieco, Staff Writer Updated 10:45 AM Monday, November 23, 2009

HARRISON TWP., Montgomery County — As the concrete barriers went up in the North Plaza Inn parking lot on Thursday, Nov. 19, the neighbors smiled and joked about opening bottles of champagne.

“I will not miss this place,” said Lois Lynch, who lives in Dayton’s DeWeese-Ridgecrest neighborhood.

The hotel, at 3636 N. Dixie Drive [MAP], is 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.

County officials are seeking to close the hotel permanently as a public nuisance. It is owned by Empire Hospitality Group, whose owner, Srdar Kadaba, lives in New Jersey.

On Nov. 18, Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Connie S. Price found that “the overwhelming evidence of the general reputation of the North Plaza Inn as a place where prostitutes gather to solicit customers and where crack cocaine is sold, consumed and purchased” was proof that Empire and Kadaba “acquiesced in the perpetuation of these nuisances.”

Price issued a temporary injunction and closing order, which led Sheriff Phil Plummer and Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr. to shut down the hotel, moving people out and changing the locks.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2057  or lgrieco@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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