Dirty Dining: La Iguana Loca had roach activity during 3 inspections in the last year

SPRING HILL, Fla. - Turid Centineo is originally from Norway but says she knows good Mexican food when she tastes it. And her meal at La Iguana Loca on Commercial Way in Spring Hill was disappointing.

"It wasn't hot. I don't know. It wasn't Mexican," Turid said.

Turid also didn't know the state shut down the restaurant for 17 hours on November 28 after inspectors found over 25 live and dead roaches near the prep table, cook line, cheese slicer, ice machine, on top of dry beans and inside a warmer at the wait station.

But this wasn't the restaurant's only run-in with roaches. Inspectors found 20 roaches on March 15, 2011 and more roaches on November 30, 2010. So ABC Action News anchor Wendy Ryan paid a visit to the place to see if the problem was resolved.

But La Iguana's owner Castulo Vasquez was not there, so Ryan spoke to him over the phone. Vasquez told her he has been in the restaurant business for 15 years and would talk on camera at a later date.

During four inspections over the last year, the state documented 44 critical violations including cheese and guacamole at dangerously warm temperatures of 60 degrees. Pork, chicken, and beef ordered to be thrown out because they were at 70 degrees instead of 41 degrees or below and coolers not maintaining the proper temperature.

And with no certified food manager on duty and employees using their bare hands on ready to eat food, it's enough to send one customer out the door.

"We're not coming back here anymore," Turid admitted.

Ryan tried calling Vasquez several times over the last two weeks to set up an on-camera interview or get a written response, but he never returned her calls.