The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office is suing two Fort Worth motels over what the DA says is out-of-control crime.<\/p>\n
Tarrant County DA Phil Sorrells said between January 2024 and May 11, 2026, Fort Worth Police have responded to 1,700 calls at the Super 7 and Delux Inn motels for drugs, robberies and more.<\/p>\n
“You need to get control of your property, and if you don’t, we’re going to shut you down,” Sorrells said. <\/p>\n
Fort Worth Police data showed that 755 of those calls were from the Super 7 Inn, resulting in 27 arrests for 39 criminal offenses. Another 933 calls came from Delux Inn, with 47 arrests for 71 criminal offenses. <\/p>\n
“That volume of crime is outrageous, it’s a nuisance, and it’s got to end,” Sorrells said. “Officers are repeatedly called back to these two properties instead of protecting other areas of our community.”<\/p>\n
NBC 5 reached out to the businesses’ owners, but did not receive a response. <\/p>\n
Sorrells said repeat crimes and offenders are impacting the quality of life for residents. In the neighborhood, there are many families, some with young kids. <\/p>\n
“Sometimes we find all the drugs back there, I guess they hide them,” Mariel Barajas, who has two young kids, said. “It’s very worrisome…the girls should be able to play outside.”<\/p>\n
Barajas said that one of her neighbors once organized a neighborhood petition to get city and county officials to help. <\/p>\n
Neighbor Adrian Barrerra said his wife has called the police countless times. <\/p>\n
Some neighbors have created petitions to get city and county officials to help. <\/p>\n
“Yeah, she gets really angry about it,” Barrera said. “I told her, keep calling so somebody could listen.”<\/p>\n
And now they feel like someone is, with the two new lawsuits working to get the properties under control. <\/p>\n
Sorrells said the county sued other businesses with similar issues in the past and shut them down. <\/p>\n
“Left unchecked, these activities contribute to neighborhood deterioration,” Fort Worth Police Department Assistant Chief Chris Daniels said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tarrant County District Attorney’s office is suing two Fort Worth motels over what the DA says is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,122],"class_list":["post-347697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}