This property is a small apartment building and part of a larger complex of buildings known as the Vistas. Because of numerous complaints and arrests due to drug activity, the U.S. Attorney’s Office identified this building as a nuisance property.

The Community Prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office contacted the owner and held numerous meetings with him along with officials from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was subsidizing the payment of rent for the low income tenants of the building. In the year prior to contacting the owner of the property, there were 81 calls for service at this property. During that same period of time, MPD recovered large quantities of crack cocaine, firearms and ammunition as a result of search warrants executed by MPD on apartments in this building.

As a result of the meetings, the owner hired full time Special Police Officers (SPOs) who remain on duty during both daytime and evening hours. The Community Prosecutor provided barring notice training to the owner and to the SPOs. The SPOs are now working with the police to bar individuals not on the lease and to evict tenants who are involved in criminal activity. Tenants involved in drug nuisance activity have been evicted, and the SPOs actively bar individuals not lawfully on the property. The owner has also installed video cameras on and around the property, allowing MPD officers and SPOs access to these cameras. 

As a result of cooperation between the owner, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and MPD, drug nuisance activity at this property has been severely curtailed and the residents at 2506 Pomeroy Road are safer and enjoy a better quality of life.