Wash Heights School Janitor Accused Of Dumping Trash Illegally: Report

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A whistleblower committed to exposing the alleged stinky injustice of illegal trash dumping by a Washington Heights school janitor from Pennsylvania just submitted four years of footage to the New York Post to prove their point.

A janitor who works at PS 48 Michael Buczek near West 186th Street and Broadway has been using the school as a place to dump his trash in the name of saving a few hundred bucks, the whistleblower told the New York Post.

The janitor, who made nearly $160,000 with overtime in 2021, commutes daily from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, according to the New York Post. In footage shot by the New York Post's source, it shows that on 11 occasions since February 2019 he arrived early at the school, opened his car's trunk, removed multiple white trash bags, and dumped them at the curb where the school's trash gets picked up by the city.

PS 48 did not immediately respond to Patch's request for comment.

In Stroudsburg, which is around an hour and 15 minutes away from Upper Manhattan, residents must pay $33 a month to get their trash picked up — which means that he would save around $400 dollars a year by driving his garbage across state lines to Washington Heights.

The janitor told the New York Post that he was just "relocating garbage from a nearby public school to PS 48," before he hung up.

The whistleblower waited four years to tell the New York Post because they wanted to provide enough evidence that the janitor couldn't "talk his way out of being disciplined."

You can read the full story on the New York Post's website.