CENTRALIA, IL – City officials on Monday Cease all operations at the Home Motel in West Noleman, Centralia, and declare all rooms in the facility uninhabitable.
Centralia police chief Greg Dodson said after months of inspections by state and local officials, it was found that there were multiple electrical, plumbing, building codes and fire safety violations in every single room in the facility, making all rooms unsafe for occupancy .
Dodson says the facility has been an ongoing site of multiple drug arrests and overdoses, as well as general criminal activity and public harassment, and is considered a drug-related premises from a law enforcement perspective.
In a press release, Dodson revealed that officials had left the premises MondayOne subject was caught escaping through a rear window into one of the rooms and found in possession of methamphetamine, while another inmate was arrested on a pending warrant against Clinton County.
He says the Home Motel’s declaration of uninhabitable stops a cave of drug activity in the middle of a commercial / residential area of Centralia, also on a road that serves as the main thoroughfare through the community.
Dodson described the living conditions in all rooms as more than appalling.
He says the motel has been more of a boarding house than a motel for the past few years, and at times families and children have lived in unfortunate, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions
Facility owners will be given the option to correct any violations and make the facility safe for occupancy or the city will condemn the property.
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