{"id":57579,"date":"2023-03-19T22:09:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=57579"},"modified":"2023-03-19T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T02:09:09","slug":"illegal-dumping-is-leaving-residents-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/03\/illegal-dumping-is-leaving-residents-frustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal dumping is leaving residents frustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Residents in Lehigh Acres are urging police to crack down on people who they say have been illegally dumping trash and debris in their neighborhood for months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"276\" data-id=\"57580\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-1-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-1-2.png 600w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-1-2-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"258\" data-id=\"57581\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-9.png 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-9-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInstall cameras, maybe patrol a little bit more, arrest people, definitely find them definitely\u2026and a high fine because I mean there\u2019s a dump. You just take it to a dump,\u201d Rhonda Moore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The community said mysterious people are dumping massive piles of trash at night. At places next to the street and in the tree line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2-4.png 615w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2-4-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s lots of plywood and all sorts of things that look flammable. There are nails, and there\u2019s who knows what in here like I said, I walk my dog, and it just can\u2019t be good for the environment. It\u2019s just not nice to see in the place you live,\u201d Amelia Martinez-Tiberi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cI don\u2019t know where these people come from, you know maybe it\u2019s a third world country maybe that\u2019s how they live there, but this is America, this is the United States mean just please don\u2019t dump,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several people said they\u2019ve reported it, and the trash will get picked up\u2026 but then it happens again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just no consequences because it keeps happening. It\u2019s a big problem here, and I feel like we get neglected sometimes with things like this,\u201d Martinez-Tiberi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Lehigh Acres are urging police to crack down on people who they say have been illegally dumping trash and debris in their neighborhood for months.&nbsp; \u201cInstall cameras, maybe&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":57581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57583,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57579\/revisions\/57583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}