SWEETWATER COUNTY — Charges are pending in a recent illegal dumping case, according to the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office.
On September 4, Deputy Sheriff Amanda Buller received a report of an illegal dump site about half a mile northwest of the KOA Campground near Rock Springs and investigated.
Buller located the dump site along the base of White Mountain and was able to identify the person believed to be responsible. Documentation and photographs were forwarded to the Sweetwater County Attorney’s Office and littering charges are pending.
Once Buller completed her investigation, inmate workers of the Sheriff’s Office Inmate Community Service Program (ICSP) cleaned up the dump site and hauled away the garbage.
Created in 2007, the ICSP allows non-violent, pre-screened, misdemeanor-level volunteer inmates of the County Detention Center, working under the direction supervision of Sheriff’s Office detention officers, to perform cleanup and light maintenance projects for not-for-profit, governmental, and community service organizations.
Sheriff Mike Lowell asks that anyone who comes across an illegal dump site get in touch with the Sheriff’s Office. “We are committed to do everything we can to deal with this problem, “ he said. “And that means identifying offenders and charging them.”
Littering, a misdemeanor, carries a maximum possible punishment of imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or both.
