Two flytippers have been arrested after a gaggle of villagers blocked their vans as they dumped piles of garbage on the facet of a rustic lane.
Photographs confirmed the second Warwickshire Law enforcement officials seized white vans on the sting of Meriden, due to quick-thinking locals.
Villagers used their vehicles to barricade the vans as they unloaded waste on Maxstoke Lane on the Packington Property.
The newest blockade comes 12 years after residents tried to cease an unlawful traveller web site on the sting of the village by tenting on the highway for greater than 600 days.
It’s understood final Wednesday’s blockade – only one mile from their final protest – didn’t final fairly so long as police arrived minutes after receiving a 999 name.
Police stated the incident was ‘among the worst flytipping we had seen in a very long time’.
A drive assertion stated: ‘We attended the Packington Property on Maxstone Lane close to Meriden to a report of two vans flytipping.
‘We attended in assist of North Warwickshire Native Policing officers who had been referred to as to the scene after native residents and staff on the property had blocked the offenders in.
‘On arrival we discovered among the worse flytipping we had seen in a very long time. We detained two males who have been instructed to reload the 2 vans with all of the garbage dumped.
‘We supervised them cleansing up their mess and loved an important cup of tea and slice of handmade cake courtesy of the farmer’s spouse. No cake and tea for these two offenders.’
Two males have been detained and ordered to reload their again up with garbage, with the vans then being seized underneath the Environmental Act.
A police spokesperson stated: ‘Cleansing up the outcomes of flytipping is the accountability of the native council and members of the general public who uncover incidents of fly-tipping ought to report it to them immediately.
‘Officers from the Warwickshire Rural Crime Group additionally attended the scene and have now taken on the investigation and prosecution case.’
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