2 Men Busted Illegally Dumping Trash In PG County: Police

FORESTVILLE, MD -- Two men have been arrested after police say they were caught illegally dumping commercial trash in a Prince George's County neighborhood.

Police conducted a sting operation at 4 a.m. Saturday morning on Cryden Way near Marlboro Pike in the Forestville area led by Chief Hank Stawinski and in collaboration with the Prince George's County Department of Public Works and Transportation, according to a report from the Prince George's County Police Department.

Local business owners "were tired of walking out of their businesses and seeing piles of trash that belonged in a dump and not across from their places of work," Stawinski said in the report.

"We took that tip and showed up under the cover of night and caught two construction trucks on the verge of dumping more trash, but we stopped it," he added. "We want our community to know that we take your tips seriously. We embrace County Executive Angela Alsobrooks’ mandate to keep our neighborhoods free of trash. We are all proud of where we work and live and we are putting illegal dumpers on notice. If you illegally dump commercial trash in our neighborhoods, you will face arrest."

The two men who were dumping the trash had open warrants for traffic violations, and were arrested at the scene, police say.

We started #GrowingGreenWithPride Day at 4AM. Someone thought they could dump their commercial garbage under cover of night. Didn’t work out so well for them. Cryden Way was filled with flashing lights instead of illegally dumped trash today! #PGCTrashTag #PrinceGeorgesProud pic.twitter.com/wMclgiH6sH
— PGPDNEWS (@PGPDNews) May 4, 2019