If you think you are fooling your neighbors about something going on at your home, forget about it.
Neighbors always seem to know what’s going on next door or down the street.
There are no secrets.
The Shooks Run neighborhood is a good example.
Folks there are convinced someone is selling drugs from a rental property near East Bijou Street and North Corona Street. It has a parade of people, day and night, seven days a week, neighbors say.
Men and women, young and old, drop by for quick visits. For months they stopped at recreational vehicles parked at the house. Now they visit the garage.
We are not specifying the exact house because we could not reach the owner, nor could we prove that any illegal activity is going on.
Here is a look at the area from FlashEarth:
We checked with Colorado Springs officials and found the house is well-known to them.
Code enforcement administrator Ken Lewis said the city has a list of complaints dating to 2005.
In 2008, his officers condemned an upstairs apartment in the duplex. Officers found unsanitary conditions and evicted a man, woman and two children from the apartment, as well as two pit bulls.
After I observed the house for myself, I became convinced something strange is going on.
I saw a steady flow of foot traffic, bicyclists and motorists coming and going. Even teenagers from nearby Palmer High School. What I saw matched what neighbors told me.
They also report bizarre behavior, such as naked men making late-night visits to the house. And some have found what they believe was drugs outside the house.
Here’s what I saw. The photo below shows one of a parade of people who walked, biked and drove up to the RVs, made quick visits and left.
(I have digitally obscured the person’s clothing.)
Note the way blankets and tarps are roped across the RV to obscure it.
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One fellow was in a hurry. He drove up, parked the wrong way, hopped out and was on his way in a jiffy.
(His license plate and other identifying marks have been erased, digitally, as well.)
A sign on the door of one RV had a sign: School of Professional Psychology. Hmmm
Neighbors tell me they’ve picked up drug paraphernalia and baggies with white substances they believed were some sort of illegal drugs.
One neighbor said a man visiting the RV stripped naked and tried to break into her house late one night.
The last photo, below, shows a fellow who was not too happy to see me taking photos. After I shot this frame, he broke into a sprint toward me, yelling something I can’t repeat. Suffice to say he wasn’t wishing me a nice day.
Since I called Colorado Springs Code Enforcement, both RVs have been moved away. But neighbors say drugs are still be sold from the garage on the property.
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