{"id":383229,"date":"2026-08-28T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383229\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:22:16","slug":"judge-issues-restraining-order-against-jacksonville-motel-in-nuisance-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383229\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge issues restraining order against Jacksonville motel in nuisance case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Superior Court judge signed a temporary restraining order Thursday against the owners and operators of the Budget Inn at 1613 North Marine Blvd. in Jacksonville following a civil nuisance abatement investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Jacksonville Police Department requested assistance from the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division in March 2026 to pursue the civil nuisance abatement action at the motel. A formal investigation was opened in late March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The investigation revealed a history of illegal drug sales, drug-related overdoses, assaults, overdose-related deaths and sexual assaults occurring on the property. The property had almost 30 nuisance-related calls for service to date this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The court order places immediate restrictions on the use of the property. It requires all nuisance-related criminal activity to cease immediately and prevents new tenants from occupying the premises pending further court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Current tenants may remain at the property until their leases conclude. All trespassing is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A preliminary injunction will occur within the next 10 days to decide next steps in the nuisance abatement case.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A Superior Court judge signed a temporary restraining order Thursday against the owners and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[153667,116,118,117,46970],"class_list":["post-383229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-budget-inn","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nuisance-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}