Neighbours still concerned after police raided Wellington Street house last week
By Adam Carter, CBC News
Posted: Sep 4, 2013 9:21 AM ET
Last Updated: Sep 4, 2013 9:19 AM ET
Residents living next to an alleged crack house in central Hamilton have been complaining about it to police for over a year —but drugs are still coming in and out even after a highly-publicized drug raid, a neighbour says.
"It's been going on for a good year," said Tammy Kerwin, the superintendent at an apartment complex that's next to the house. "I've been down to the police station a few times to hand in some information, and I've been on the phone with [police] too."
"We've taken pictures of people, we've taken pictures of license plates. I provided a lot of information because I was just tired of it."
Hamilton police raided the house at 130 Wellington St. S on Thursday afternoon and arrested three people on cocaine related offenses. In a news release, Hamilton police said the "problematic web of drug activity was extinguished."
Members of the community were so relieved to see the arrests that some came out and applauded as police led the three accused away. Community members said they endured suspicious activities, people coming and going at all hours, late-night visitors, noise and discarded needles, and have gotten used to seeing police cruisers around the property.
"Members of the immediate community asked for action, and the drug unit delivered," the release reads.
But Kerwin says despite the police taking action last week and in previous visits, it hasn't turned out that way.
"It's not at all. I don't see that," she said. "I know they have to build cases and everything, and that takes time. You can't just storm into a building. They have to make sure that the allegation is true."
"But it's still running. Did they shut it down? No."
Hamilton police spokesperson Claus Wagner told CBC Hamilton that the officers in charge of the investigation are "following the situation," but hadn't heard about drug activity picking up at the house again.
"The main people were arrested," he said.
Hamilton police did confirm that an ambulance responded to a medical call at the house Monday morning and a man was taken to the hospital, but they did not release any other details citing patient confidentiality.
The medical call was not related to last week's drug raid, police say.
Ward 2 Coun. Jason Farr told CBC Hamilton in an email that neither his office nor the Corktown Neighbourhood Association has gotten any complaints about the house.
The property managers for the apartment complex Kerwin runs are working to operate good buildings and want the message out that the drug activity is not part of the complex. Kerwin says the complex has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to drug use. She has even chained a gate between her property and the house shut to keep people associated with the drug activity out.
In the past, she has had to chase drug users out of the complex's stairwells. "It is scary when you run into them in the stairwells — because you don't know. They're unpredictable," she said.
"Your adrenaline just goes. You get a hyped up. I just tell them to get the hell out."
The rental complex next to the house has about 200 units and Kerwin says families occupy many of them. Kerwin says she is doing everything she can to provide a safe environment for her tenants, and wants the police to step in and shut the house down for good.
"I'd just rather say something than to turn around and walk away."
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