A former Department of Safety and Permits employee arrested for allegedly creating fake short-term rental licenses made hundreds of edits to 27 different licenses over a 10-month period, court documents show.
At least 48 of those edits involved 810 Bienville Street, a French Quarter address which houses the 97-unit D.H. Holmes Apartments building. Short-term rentals are banned from the French Quarter, except for on a six-block stretch of Bourbon Street.
A short-term rental supervisor began scrutinizing the department’s records in May, after a caller asked about a license for a unit at 810 Bienville St. That caller said “a license had been ‘purchased’ from a person named Elisha,” according to an affidavit supporting Elisha Bell Collier’s arrest on four felony counts…