Tenants at Bollinger Towers, located at 750 N. High St., told 10TV's Tanisha Mallett that they were never made aware about the problem.

Charlotte Hyajneh-Simpson thought she was lucky when her neighbor gave her his new carpet sweeper to keep.

"I started using the sweeper and then I started feeling these bites on me," Hyajneh-Simpson said.

She told her neighbor, John Rand, about the bites, who said that his neighbor just had his apartment exterminated for bed bugs.

"They went next door and said, 'Oh my God,' and they ran out of there because there were so many (bed bugs) in there," Rand said.  "It was terrible.  When the guy moved his furniture around, you could just pick it up with your hands."

Hyajneh-Simpson said she was bitten on her arm and leg. 

She said that she was upset the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority never told her there was a problem, but CMHA said that it only notifies the tenants who are affected to protect their privacy.

Two apartments on the fourth floor and one on the sixth floor were infested with bed bugs, according to the Housing Authority.

As a preventative measure, eleven apartments were treated.

Hyajneh-Simpson said that she should have been warned because she is dealing with the problem and its costs.

As 10TV News reported last week, a task force was formed in Franklin County in hopes of preventing further outbreaks.

Schools, nursing homes and apartment complexes are the places health officials said they are worried about seeing an outbreak.

The Housing Authority says it is working with the group.

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