The Curry County Sheriff’s Office assisted Curry County Code Enforcement and the Curry County Road Department with the cleanup and removal of garbage and waste from a transient camp on county owned property located at the corner of South Bank Chetco and the access to Lower Harbor Road in Harbor, Or. Code Enforcement Officers had previously made contact with transients at that location several weeks prior, posted notices at the property and asked them to clean up the property and vacate.
On Wednesday, February 12th, at about noon, Curry County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at the camp to make sure the camp was clear so Code Enforcement and the Road Department could start the cleanup.
Deputies contacted known transient forty nine year old Garry Roberts Jr. Roberts was asked several times to leave and he refused to cooperate with law enforcement so he was arrested for trespass and depositing trash within a hundred yards of a waterway. Roberts was transported to the Curry County Jail and cited and released the next day.
The Curry County Road Department started the cleanup and by the end of the second day, they hauled seven dump truck loads of garbage to the dump. Each load of trash and debris cost an average of $600.00 to dump. Crew members doing the cleanup said there were hundreds of rats that ran out into the brush from all the garbage at the site. Crew members also cut down some trees and brush in order to get to all the trash.
Code Enforcement and the Road Department did an outstanding job of getting the mess cleaned up and they expect to continue with our transient dump sites.
