Becky Andrews checked into the Super 8 hotel in Bonner Springs last fall as she prepared to watch her son act in a play at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
For Andrews, a retired high school chemistry teacher from Colorado, the night turned into an ordeal.
"I had this sensation of things crawling on me, but I never saw anything," she said. "It took a long time for me to realize what was going on."
After several "itchy-twitchy" hours, she said, she captured a live bug in a plastic cup and took it to the front desk the next morning to complain.
She said that when the hotel didn't appear to take her seriously, she filed a complaint with the state.
A Kansas Department of Agriculture inspector visited the hotel on Nov. 3 and confirmed that Room 406 was infested with bed bugs.
The hotel was ordered to fix the problem, and a follow-up inspection was scheduled for Dec. 3. But the follow-up never occurred.
The state announced that day it was suspending its lodging inspection program because of budget cuts.
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