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'We're on our own:' Elderly ladies plead with commissioners to get help at their apartment complex

Residents say they've had people selling drugs in the parking lot, and someone recently got attacked by someone breaking in.

Vineville Christian Towers is a low-income, affordable housing apartment complex off of Vineville Avenue near the Big House Museum. 

On every floor, Beatrice Bentley says she can find something that's wrong. 

Her biggest complaint is that there's no air conditioning, yet broken air conditioners litter the ground.

She says plenty of other things are left in the hallway and there's mold and mildew in people's rooms and in the stairwell.

"The people that come in that want to rent, they want to tell them they're bed bugs. Bed bugs are bad," said Bentley. 

Bentley and her friends stormed into city hall to ask Bibb County commissioners for help. Patricia Peurifoy led the group.

"We have no security. At 5:00 when the office closes, we're on our own," said Peurifoy. 

Peurifoy says the Bibb County Sheriff's Office gets called there multiple times a week. She says people are selling drugs in the parking lot, and someone recently got hit on the head by people who broke into the complex.

They were hoping Bibb County commissioners could find some some kind of a security guard.

Commissioner Al Tillman saying they don't want people living in similar conditions to those at Crystal Lake apartment complex. He's hoping the county can write a letter to The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of the Macon Housing Authority. Residents like Stanley Stewart also said they were in support of the women. 

"I think those ladies really deserve a better quality of life right now," said Stewart.

One of the administrators said she had no comment about the ladies' concerns, but she did say they are having problems with bed bugs. 

She's concerned that management in California will close the building down.

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