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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WJZY) \u2014 Local and federal law enforcement officials say the six-month-long investigation into a northeast Charlotte hotel is just the beginning of an effort to make the Sugar Creek corridor safer.<\/p>

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U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson referred to the entire corridor as an \u201copen-air drug market\u201d. He gave a warning to other hotel operators nearby, saying if they\u2019re cooperating with criminals instead of cops, law enforcement will seize their properties, just like they did with the Garden Inn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe cannot let pockets of Charlotte become safe for criminals and not safe for anyone else,\u201d said Ferguson. \u201cWe cannot do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an area that\u2019s long been on Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers\u2019 and city leaders\u2019 radars. In fact, at the Garden Inn alone, officers received 590 calls for service and made 47 arrests<\/strong> from the beginning of January 2024 to May 18 of this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a long day in the making for residents of the Sugar Creek Corridor and Reagan Drive,\u201d said Charlotte City Councilmember Dante Anderson, who represents the area.<\/p>\n

Anderson said that within weeks of Police Chief Estella Patterson taking her role, she called her to find out what could be done about the persistent crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis area has been plagued for years,\u201d said Anderson. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a couple of years. It\u2019s been a very long time, and so it\u2019s going to take time to dismantle that behavior that has been accepted.\u201d<\/p>

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Wednesday\u2019s sting at the hotel, which investigators are calling a hub for drug and gun trafficking, is step one of the clean-up process. It involved hundreds of FBI agents and CMPD officers, who arrested nearly a dozen people and took 11 guns and 1,700 grams of narcotics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is because of this strong team, you see, we are moving closer to making sure Charlotte is a safe city,\u201d said Chief Patterson.<\/p>\n

Patterson said she\u2019ll keep working with federal partners to bring a sense of security to the area because they see the corridor\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a\u00a0part of Charlotte that should be thriving,\u201d said Ferguson. \u201cIt is a part of Charlotte that is affordable, but it is a part of Charlotte that is not safe. And we are going to use every federal tool we have to make sure it is safe for those who are using it innocently to get to work and to get to education.\u201d<\/p>\n

Investigators said for this particular case involving the Garden Inn, there could be more arrests and charges on the way for other people potentially involved.<\/p>

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