Tenant Knew/Should Have Known About Drug Activity

(Decision submitted by Gary D. Friedman, Esq., of the New Hyde Park, N.Y., law firm of Gutman, Mintz, Baker & Sonnenfeldt, PC, attorneys for the landlord). Landlord sued to evict tenant based on illegal drug activity in the apartment. Tenant claimed that she didn't know anything about this. The court ruled for landlord. Tenant's testimony wasn't believable. The police had found bags of cocaine, heroin, and methadone, as well as drug paraphernalia, in tenant's apartment. Tenant had been trained as a peace officer, so she should have been more alert to suspicious activity in her apartment than she claimed.

Maria Estela I Assocs. v. Camareno: Index No. 42595/05 (Civ. Ct. Bronx; Doherty, J) [4-pg. doc.)