COLUMBUS – The city of Columbus and its police department have sued a downtown Greyhound bus station in the wake of several hundred emergency calls made there this year.
City Attorney Zach Klein and the Columbus Division of Police filed the complaint against the bus carrier seeking preliminary and permeant injunctive relief.
“The continued violence occurring at this property has plagued our city’s downtown residents, businesses, and visitors for too long,” Klein said.
The lawsuit comes as Columbus police report having received more than 300 calls for service to the bus station so far in 2021.
The calls, the department says, have ranged from concerns about guns, stabbings, 20 fights and a shooting last month.
There have been nearly a dozen narcotics complaints and at least four overdoses, according to the lawsuit filed in Franklin County Environmental Court against Greyhound Bus Lines.