Owner of boarded up house agreed to leave it boarded up one year

Staff report

WARREN

The woman who owns a house on Wick Street Southeast that was raided and boarded up June 6 following a drug investigation has agreed to leave the home boarded up for a year.

Annie Foster of Canton agreed to the action Monday during a hearing in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The hearing was in a civil suit filed by the City of Warren that called the property a nuisance as a result of drug dealing and other nuisance issues reported by neighbors.

City officials will allow Foster to enter the home to clean out a refrigerator and handle various other tasks in preparation for boarding up the doors and windows, said Traci Timko Rose, assistant Warren law director.

The Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force conducted a two-month investigation of the property at 2345 Wick and raided it June 6, arresting Annie Foster’s son, Carl Foster, 57, and Antonio Stubbs, 27.

Both were charged with felony drug possession and await trial.

Stubbs reported his address as 1641 Oak Street SW when he was again arrested early Saturday and charged with disorderly conduct related to a disturbance at a gas station at 4000 East Market Street.

It’s the third time in a little over a year that local law enforcement officials have used the nuisance statutes in Ohio law to shut down properties being used for illegal activity. Other nuisance properties addressed include nine massage parlors suspected of conducting prostitution.