COLUMBUS, Ohio — The City of Columbus announced it boarded up a house in the North Linden neighborhood known for drugs and violent crime.
Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein announced the city's property action team was able to get a court order to shut down the house located at 2801 Atwood Terrace.
According to court records, the Columbus Division of Police has been called to the property about 60 times since March 2021. Calls include reports of assault, burglary, robbery, shots fired, multiple overdoses, arson and an unknown number of individuals breaking into the home to run drugs out of the house.
In September 2023, Columbus police received a narcotics complaint at the house from a neighbor reporting that there were people entering and leaving the house at all hours.
Three months later, officers served a search warrant at the house and nearly a year later, undercover narcotics detectives conducted an operation to buy crack cocaine at the house.
In addition to the extensive criminal activity, the property also has a history of health and safety code violations that have stretched for a number of years without being addressed.
“Neighbors stepped up to say ‘enough is enough,’ and because of that and the great work of the Division of Police and Code Enforcement, this dangerous property is shut down and folks can live without the fear of the violence and criminal activity we saw at that property,” said Assistant City Attorney Kenyatta Wilder, a member of the City Attorney’s Property Action Team.
