Crime & Safety

Police to Greenwich Woman: Don’t Dump on Port Chester

Woman wanted to get rid of debris that she could not put in her own building's trash.

 

A Greenwich woman was cited for illegal dumping when she tried to dispose of unwanted lumber in the trash bin of a Port Chester, NY building, according to Port Chester Police.

A village officer traveling on North Main Street noticed a car parked at a side entrance of 1 Landmark Square. The officer spotted a 34-year-old Greenwich woman, who was putting broken pieces of wood into the building’s trash.

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When asked what she was doing, police said the woman noted that the superintendent of the building where she lives in Greenwich does not allow tenants to put such debris into the building’s trash and she was putting the material in the 1 Landmark Square building trash for disposal.

The village officer instructed the woman to take back her debris, and she was issued a ticket for illegal dumping. Her name was not released by police.

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