PUNTA GORDA \u2014 Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s detectives used a trail camera recording and license plate readers to track down a man they charged with felony dumping on private property, reports shows.<\/p>\n
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Christopher Stephen Chase<\/p>\n
CCSO<\/p>\n
Christopher Chase, 63, of 417 Cooper St., was arrested this week on the charges, reports show.<\/p>\n
Charlotte County Detective Philip Traniello often investigates illegal dumping incidents for the Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Traniello set up a trail camera on property on Taylor Road, just south of Airport Road in Punta Gorda, with permission from the property owner, reports show.<\/p>\n
When Traniello recently checked the property, he found \u201ca large pile of waste lot clearing debris consisting of palmetto bushes, roots and dirt,\u201d his report states.<\/p>\n
The 4-foot tall pile measured 16 by 8 feet, the detective reported. The total of 512 cubic feet constitutes a felony amount of debris, he reported.<\/p>\n
Traniello reviewed the trail camera footage and saw a Dodge pickup with a trailer dump a load of debris on the property on June 27, he reported.<\/p>\n
The detective checked with CCSO\u2019s Intelligence Unit and learned that license plate readers showed a truck fitting that description and registered to Chase had been in the area around that time, the report shows.<\/p>\n
Traniello spoke to Chase at his home, and Chase admitted he dumped the materials, according to the report.<\/p>\n
He arrested Chase on July 27 for violating the felony litter law, booked him into the Charlotte County Jail on $2,500 bond, records show. Chase bonded out the following day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUNTA GORDA \u2014 Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s detectives used a trail camera recording and license plate readers to track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,4250,115],"class_list":["post-359405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}