Southwest
Sub shop owner wins battle to remove homeless camp outside store after 'defecation, fornication', 'deaths'
Old Station Subs owner Joe Faillace gave an update on the homeless crisis in Phoenix, Arizona, after he won a legal battle to clear a homeless encampment outside his restaurant.
“I think it’s a permanent fix,” Faillace said on “America’s Newsroom,” explaining that the police were monitoring his restaurant.
“There’s definitely more police presence,” he said. “This was the first time that I can remember that I came down to my restaurant and there was just no one around. It was just clear. It was nice.”
BODY FOUND BURNING IN DOWNTOWN PHOENIX DUMPSTER, POLICE SAY
Old Station Subs owner Joe Faillace gave an update on the homeless crisis in Phoenix, Arizona, after he won a legal battle to clear a homeless encampment outside his restaurant. (Fox News)
The neighborhood where Faillace has worked for almost 40 years, according to The New York Times, has been completely changed after a Maricopa County judge “ordered the city to clear away its largest homeless encampment, a tent city of more than 1,000 residents known as The Zone” on Sept. 20.
“The difference over the last six months is something I never believed was even possible,” he told The Times. “It’s an entirely new place. Every day feels like a miracle.”
Faillace told Fox News that one of the reasons he believes he won the case was that the homeless crisis in Phoenix has become extremely serious.
“I think that’s one of the reasons why we won the case was because it’s just gotten out of control,” he said. “The pee, the poop, the defecation, fornication, the deaths: there was a fetus left in the street one day.”
“Somebody murdered somebody and threw him in the dumpster,” the shop owner said, referencing how a body was found burning in a downtown Phoenix dumpster in March.
Old Station Sub Shop in Phoenix, Arizona, owned by Joe Faillace, pictured in 2010. (Google Streetview)
Faillace said that he didn’t realize how insane the situation in Maricopa County had become until The New York Times interviewed him for a story about the homeless crisis that was published Tuesday.
SEATTLE CLOSES BLACK LIVES MATTER GARDEN AMID RAMPANT HOMELESSNESS, DRUG USE AND VANDALISM
“It was insane,” he said. “It took the New York Times guy coming down here and talking to me for four days to make me realize how bad it really was.”
Faillace, who is 70 years old, said that he was more focused on the day-to-day work he had running his sandwich shop. “You have to get up, you have to go to work, you have to make a living, you want to survive,” he said.
Phoenix is one of many major American cities experiencing a homeless crisis. (Lightvision, LLC via Getty Images)
The homeless crisis has spread far beyond his neighborhood, Faillace explained.
“They just need to change their mindset,” he said of local leadership. “It’s just not in The Zone anymore. It’s all over the city.”
“There’s homeless everywhere now,” he said.
Read the full article from Here
Los Angeles, Ca
NB 405 Freeway closed near LAX after pursuit ends in gunfire
The northbound 405 Freeway will remain closed for several hours near Los Angeles International Airport after a police pursuit ended with officers opening fire Friday morning. Unconfirmed reports indicated the incident began with a robbery at a 7-Eleven store, which ended with Los Angeles Police Department officers pursuing the suspect in a Kia. The chase […]
Los Angeles, Ca
'Top Gun: Maverick' actor identified as victim stabbed to death in Tarzana
The victim in a bizarre and deadly stabbing in Tarzana has been identified as 81-year-old character actor James Handy, best known for a recent role in Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun: Maverick.” The stabbing happened around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 19200 block of Erwin Street in the West Valley area. Officers responded after receiving a […]
Los Angeles, Ca
Overnight military training brings loud flash bangs, simulated gunfire to quiet Pasadena neighborhood
A late-night U.S. Military training exercise kept residents in a normally quiet Pasadena neighborhood awake with the sounds of flash bangs and simulated gunfire into the early hours of Thursday. Councilman Rick Cole posted videos of the scene in front of the former Saint Luke’s Hospital on E Washington Blvd, where the training exercise in […]
-
New Jersey8 seconds agoCan Saharan dust reach New Jersey?
-
North Carolina3 minutes agoOL Shavezz Dixon commits to North Carolina: ‘I know this is home’
-
New Mexico3 minutes agoGovernor appoints Rebecca Roose as Natural Resources Trustee – Office of the Governor – Michelle Lujan Grisham
-
North Dakota15 minutes agoUnearth a Story this summer at the Leach Public Library
-
Ohio18 minutes agoOhio AG Yost sues ambulance company over alleged out-of-network disclosure failures
-
Oklahoma23 minutes agoSooners, Jayhawks meet in Super Regionals with trip to Omaha on the line
-
Oregon30 minutes agoOregon begins issuing Summer EBT, giving eligible kids $120 for food
-
Pennsylvania33 minutes agoPA law would restrict cellphones in schools. Pittsburgh already bans them