COLUMBIA, 2/26/09 (Beat Byte) -- Between crime, debt, lax rental standards, and our badly broken justice system, Columbia's law-abiding apartment dwellers don't stand a chance.
Take Gatehouse Apartments, 2401 W. Broadway, where fallout from the nationwide credit crunch and repeat offenders who should be in prison may be behind an explosion of assaults, gun violence, SWAT busts, and kidnapping. From drug dealers to child pornographers, Columbia's Sodom-on-the-Hinkson has kept cops arresting, bailers bonding, and courts releasing day in and day out in recent months.
Just last week, Gatehouse resident Eric Kegler Lambert, 21, out on bond for a forgery violation two weeks earlier, was arrested again for probation and parole violations.
Lambert's had breaks by the bushel.
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