ROOMS ALLEGEDLY TRADED FOR DRUGS

LITTLE ITALY -- Thirteen homeless people staying in four rooms at the
Radisson Hotel Harbor View on Front Street were arrested yesterday after
police learned someone was illegally renting out the rooms in exchange for
drugs.

Hotel officials called police at noon when it was discovered that someone
had obtained credit card receipts from a trash can and used the numbers to
charge four rooms at the hotel, said San Diego police spokesman Bill Robinson.

The man who rented the rooms is being sought.

Robinson said the man is suspected of taking in people off the street who
provided him drugs in exchange for the rooms. The rooms had been rented for
two days.

Methamphetamine and marijuana were found in the rooms.