KINGMAN - Wildcat desert dumpers might want to think twice before dumping trash in Mohave County.
Mohave County Superior Court Judge Rick Williams recently sentenced Maricopa County contractor Jeff Inglin, 34, to 30 days in jail, probation and 400 hours of community service for dumping more than a ton of trash in the desert.
"I think the sentence is very appropriate," said District I Supervisor Gary Watson. Inglin could spend some of those community service hours helping the Catch the Bug and Environmental Rural Cleanup Enforcement programs to clean up trash in the desert, if he wished, Watson said. To date, the Catch the Bug trash pick-up program has cleared more than 520,000 pounds of garbage from the desert, he said.
Lake Mead Recreation Area Park Ranger Erik Westpfahl found the trash in April off of Temple Bar Road, at U.S. 93 mile marker 19.
The debris was traced back to a home that had been foreclosed on in Kingman by Mohave County ERACE Investigator George Young. He found that Moore Equity Mortgage, Inc. contracted with Spectrum Field Services, Inc. out of Salt Lake City to clean up the property.
Spectrum Field subcontracted the job to Hass Field Services of Scottsdale, which in turn contracted with Inglin Properties, LLC, which is owned by Inglin.
The owner of Hass, Inc. told Young that he had contracted many times with Inglin and even had a landfill receipt for $450 that Inglin provided to him as proof of completing the job. Inglin was also supposed to clean out seven more houses in Las Vegas for Hass, Inc, he said.
The Mohave County landfill charges about $32 per ton of garbage, Young said. The owner of Hass, Inc. cleaned up the mess.
Inglin admitted to Young that he did clean out the house, but he said he paid someone he found at the Wal-Mart parking lot $200 to haul the stuff to the dump. He couldn't describe the person to Young and didn't get a receipt.
The Registrar of Contractors told Young that Inglin had had his license suspended once before. The felony conviction could lead to it being revoked.
Posted: Friday, January 01, 2010
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Wanna Make a Quick Buck, Buddy
Just look at how many times this one project got handed off. Each hand-off likely put half the bucks in his own pocket for doing absolutely nothing until they find a joker that will do it for next to nothing. Pretty much like the discounted mortgage bundle sales scams that now has us in a near depression. You can't legislate away greed. You can't legislate honesty and fair dealing. The Golden Rule has been hauled to a wash outside Kingman and dumped there in a pile of crap.
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Jeff
Good gaud, what a string of hanger-ons just to get a place cleaned up. No wonder everything now costs so much.
As for the sentence, good. Just wish all those contractors, sub-contactors, etc were subject to the same sentence.
Posted: Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Wonder if the KDM will publish this
The "dumpers" will only find another place to dump their trash.... good slap on the hand Williams.
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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J.M.
Good Job! More [people] needs to be accountable for their actions........
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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What a bunch of garbage!
$32 A TON! I pay almost that amount every month to the city and I recycle 85 percent of my waste! I'm lucky if I have one garbage bag every month...what do I have to do to opt out of trash pickup here?
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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john
have this man clean up fripps ranch road that is a good start
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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anonymous
you just have to wonder what sort of slobs dump trash around the outskirts of town. most of this stuff could be dumped legally for the price of a pizza or two. oftentimes with somewhat larger loads of several hundred pounds, a person ca put it out for trash pickup in smaller amounts over time. what's the rush to dump it all at once in the desert?
