EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso County Attorney’s Office has obtained a temporary restraining order to immediately shut down an East El Paso bar, following nearly 280 emergency calls from the property and a deadly hit-and-run crash.
Dirty Laundry, located at 3136 Trawood Dr., Suites E-1 and E-2, has closed its doors effective immediately after a district judge signed the restraining order.
The lawsuit was filed against the bar owners and operators, including 3136 Trawood LLC, Ortequi Ltd Texas Limited Partnership, Pro West Industries Corp., and Victor Fernandez, Jose Luis Ortega and Blanca E. Ortega.
According to a press release by the County Attorney’s Office, local authorities call the business a “common nuisance” and under Texas law, a “common nuisance” is a place where people habitually go to commit crimes and where management knowingly tolerates the activity or fails to make reasonable efforts to stop the activity…