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Roseburg motel fined $31k for overcharging wildfire evacuees
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
By Scott Carroll, The News-Review
The Days Inn by Wyndham in Roseburg has been fined $31,000 for overcharging dozens of area residents who sought rooms after fleeing the Archie Creek Fire.
SUBH Investment LLC, which does business as Days Inn by Wyndham in Roseburg, entered into an agreement, known as an assurance of voluntary compliance, with the Oregon Department of Justice on Monday. The hotel is located at 790 NW Garden Valley Blvd.
Devon Kumar, who lives in a suburb of Portland, is listed with the state as the owner of the Days Inn. He declined to comment Wednesday. Kumar was represented in the agreement by Portland attorney James Dowell.
Roseburg motel fined after overcharging evacuees during wildfires
Evacuees staying at the Days Inn on Garden Valley Boulevard claim the motel was charging them nearly $300 a night when the fire broke out last September.
Posted: Feb 25, 2021 7:10 PM
Updated: Mar 4, 2021 3:39 PM
Posted By: Evita Garza
ROSEBURG, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Justice has fined a Roseburg Motel $31,000 for price gouging evacuee victims when they fled from the Archie Creek Fire.
Evacuees staying at the Days Inn on Garden Valley Boulevard claim the motel was charging them nearly $300 a night when the fire broke out last September.
Idleyld Trading Post owner and manager Trinity Barney told KEZI 9 News that she was one of the first people to notice something was off.