She brought up the infestation to the property manager, but her complaints fell on deaf ears.
“I stopped cooking because every time I cooked more bugs came out,” she said in a video presentation by the Topeka Justice Unity & Ministry Project at its Nehemiah Action meeting on Monday night. “It made me feel dirty, and then they weren’t doing anything about it.”
The bug issues were made worse during the COVID-19 pandemic when everyone was quarantined to their homes.
Clingman said she was waiting for assistance before she could move out of the apartment. Presenters at Topeka JUMP’s meeting said they heard similar stories of tenants “trapped with nowhere else to go” due to a lack of affordable housing.
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The Shawnee County Sheriff s Office seized 91.8 pounds of meth in the first quarter of 2021.
Sheriff Brian Hill presented first-quarter numbers to the Shawnee County Commission at Monday’s meeting. The department also seized 29.7 grams of marijuana and 2.1 grams of cocaine in 2021.
“Since the first of the year our drug task force has been extremely busy,” Hill said. “We want to let the public know we are working diligently to interrupt the flow of narcotics into Shawnee County.”
A presentation by the sheriff s office showed that methenamine use among people ages 26 and older has been increasing since 2016, but the use with people 18-25 has fluctuated.