Top three? So, how many crimes there have been in this year? Three?
Well, take the number of people actually caught dealing drugs out of the rooms. Then ask yourself what percent of all the people actually dealing drugs the police catch.

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Yeah but all in all it is still plain weird. What exactly are the owners of the property charged with?

But taking the various bits of posted information here at face value, Tewksbury seems to be a caricature straight from some cheap, poor quality comic; a real life Sin City.
Their claim is, I suppose, that he is allowing (presumably for a fee) obvious drug dealers to operate out of his motel. Very convenient for them, I would imagine, because they don't have to have a fixed address that way. But I think in civil forfeiture they charge the property and not the person...it is strange.

Most people who stay at motels are just sleeping there for a night. How many visitors would have to come to a room to deal out 160 packets of heroin? It seems perfectly plausible that they have good evidence (all the details of which obviously won't be in news articles, especially the ones whose main source is the defense lawyers ) that he was running the place as a safe haven.

Keeping a watchful eye on this kind of case is well and good, but that video