EAGLE MOUNTAIN, Utah – The sheriff at Utah County has a rather strange case of illegal dumping in their hands, saying garbage from several Eagle Mountain residents ends up on private property instead of at the dumping ground.
Only the people who own the property are not the ones who leave it behind.
Friday afternoon, the sheriff of Utah County Sgt. Spencer Cannon took photos of discarded furniture, boxes and random objects perched between snow trees on snow and mud.
The piles of rubbish were left on private property at the foot of Lake Mountain, on the outskirts of Eagle Mountain.
Sgt. Cannon showed off an old pair of Sorel boots, a dog crate and what was canned beets in mason jars. Old couches and chairs were stacked under mattresses and changing rooms.
“For another 20 minutes, this man could have done it the right way,” he said, referring to the fact that the landfill at Cedar Fort was only 5 miles.
While documenting the investigation, he finds a box with a name.
“It does contain identifiable information,” he said.
The sheriff was already aware of who this stuff belonged to, because of Amazon boxes with names and addresses.
The culprits could face fines of more than $ 1,000, sergeants said. Canon indicated.
But therefore the owners of all these things could not believe that it was left there.
“I was just like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ‘, Asks Torri Kenison in disbelief.
She claims to be the owner of a sink, two dressers, a dog crate, candles and boxes strewn with the rest of the rubbish.
“It’s my thing, and it needs to be done away with in an appropriate way. And I was irritated that there was a lie to me,” Scarlet Davis said.
Many of the items are from Davis and her husband, who recently cleaned their garage and got rid of a trailer full of unwanted stuff.
The video of the doorbell reads how it all started when Kenison hired a man on Facebook for a week on Wednesday.
The man, she explained, presented in a community group that offered people to earn extra money. Kenison said at least 15 people commented to present him less than 30 minutes after he did the job.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll just do this guy. He looks pretty. There’s quite a bit of interest,’ ‘Kenison said.
She described how the man quickly arrived and took the objects off her porch to load into his trailer. The man told her he was going to pick up items for other people, including one person who paid him $ 150. Kenison and her husband paid the man $ 30, and he left.
But fast forward to earlier this week, when another Facebook message appeared in the same community group. The post warned against hiring the same man Kenison hired to make a dump, with explanations that he would not actually go to the dump site.
Several photos were attached, and Kenison immediately recognized all of her stuff.
“He literally dumped me from my house for two minutes,” she said.
Just around the corner from her house, it looked like Kenison’s trash was left with other people’s trash. When she called the sheriff of Utah County, she found out they were already in the case.
“He was like, ‘So, you’re hit by the garbage can? ‘, She said about what the deputy had told her. And I was like, ‘Yeah. ‘And he said I was one of the four people who called about it that day. ‘
Sgt. Cannon said they had already contacted several people with the same story: they paid money to a man to take out garbage, only to see their belongings dumped illegally on private property.
Davis is the one who invented it all and created the original Facebook post. She explained that someone in the area found the garbage and noticed Davis’ name on some of the boxes and then reached out to her.
Her message led to comments from many others to recognize their items.
“My stuff was loaded with a bunch of other people’s stuff,” she said. “They came out and said, ‘Oh, this is mine. This is mine.'”
Davis said she and her husband paid the man $ 100 and even let him borrow their trailer, which was crammed to go to the so-called landfill.
While Davis was initially worried that the sheriff would find her items and fine her, she now just wants everything to be cleaned up. She said many people volunteered to help her get everything out over the weekend and do it the right way.
Meanwhile, Kenison and Davis both sent the man a message to confront him. They each said that he denied throwing the items there and even went so far as to tell Kenison that the items she found were not hers.
The person behind this strange business has a family, Davis said. She said she understands difficult times and bad decisions, and that she does not expect her money back.
But she wants him to make better choices and learn from them.
“If they get away with such things, it could harm the community and itself,” she said. “So, I just want him to admit that what he did was wrong.”
The sheriff is now calling this person to account. Sgt. Cannon said he could face charges of misconduct and possible fines to cover the cost of cleanup.
“These people expected to get a legal service,” he said. “And that’s what they got, is a pile of rubbish – from their property – being thrown out here.”