Miami man caught attempting to take cardboard bundles

A Miami man was caught by a deputy Tuesday evening as he was attempting to take bundles of recyclable cardboard from behind a Key Largo business.

Deputy Ignacio Molina was on patrol just before 8 p.m. when he checked the area behind Walgreen’s Pharmacy at the 99.5 mile marker of the highway. He saw a cargo trailer hooked up to a van, parked in the middle of the road, with no lights and no license tag on the trailer. The trailer was piled with unsecured pieces of metal the driver had apparently picked up from neighborhoods in the area. The deputy then saw Leonel Ortiz-Geprge picking up a bundle of cardboard from behind the store and getting ready to put it on the trailer.

Deputy Molina asked the man if he had permission to take the cardboard, which was the property of Walgreen’s. He said he didn’t know he had to have permission.

Geprge could not show any proof of registration for the trailer, so the trailer was towed. Geprge received citations for towing an unregistered vehicle upon a public roadway, having unsafe, unsecured cargo in the trailer and for having no rear lights on the trailer.

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