A former Columbus doctor was sentenced Monday to three months in jail for not maintaining problem rental units, some of which were crime scenes.
“The level of inaction and indifference displayed by this landlord is among the worst I’ve seen in my time as city attorney,” City Attorney Zach Klein said in a written statement. “Landlords have a duty to their tenants and to the city.
The judge also imposed $250-per-day fines for code violations on dozens of mostly South Side rental properties owned by Villavicencio, and ordered three be boarded up for continued drug trafficking and criminal activity.“This landlord has subjected tenants to deplorable living conditions and allowed criminals to use his properties as hubs to traffic fentanyl and other drugs into our streets," Klein's office said in the statement.
The board also investigated his treatment of 16 patients between 2005 and 2008, including several who died soon after appointments. But the board did not accuse him of being directly responsible for those deaths, and his attorney argued that they should not have been part of the investigation into Villavicencio's practice.
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