{"id":276957,"date":"2026-06-24T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:56:11","slug":"knicks-fan-fined-for-stealing-nyc-trash-can-despite-returning-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276957\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Fan Fined for Stealing NYC Trash Can Despite Returning It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Fired Knicks Fan<br \/>\n                          Fined Over Stolen Trash Can<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 24, 2026<br \/>\n                            10:50 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260624_02198b9e19ed461a8a5a12b6cc47149e\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7f6c125c-9f99-42b7-b415-f14c9dc21945\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/02198b9e19ed461a8a5a12b6cc47149e_md.jpg\" alt=\"new york trash lady fine nypd\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Knicks fan who proudly dumped garbage onto a New York City street to steal the basketball themed orange and blue trash can is still getting dunked on &#8230; she&#8217;s been hit with multiple fines.<\/p>\n<p>TMZ has learned the celebratory Knicks trash can was returned to New York City&#8217;s Department of Sanitation Wednesday morning &#8230; and, the trash bandit behind the ordeal was issued two summonses &#8230; including a $75 littering ticket and a $100 ticket for impeding DSNY operations.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the fines are the maximum allowed by law for first offenses.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260624_8983164bf2984cc48a6b4a4d92858781\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:7f6c125c-9f99-42b7-b415-f14c9dc21945\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/8983164bf2984cc48a6b4a4d92858781_md.jpg\" alt=\"ny trash can @NYCSanitation \" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We covered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/20\/woman-steals-knicks-trash-can\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wild story<\/a> &#8212; a woman, later identified as 40-year-old\u00a0Angie B\u00e1ez, was so happy about the Knicks&#8217; NBA Championship, she emptied a themed garbage can onto the street and then walked away with it.<\/p>\n<p>She was later spotted on the subway proudly clinging to her memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      Just like \u2026 Knicks Trash \ud83d\uddd1\ufe0f Bin Souvenir for your home \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02\ud83d\uddfd\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NYPeBMeQyE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/NYPeBMeQyE<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WorldLatinHoney\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@WorldLatinHoney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her employer, JPMorgan Chase, didn&#8217;t find her antics funny, though &#8230; and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/24\/jpmorgan-chase-fires-executive-who-stole-knicks-trash-bin\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">canned<\/a>\u00a0her over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having to cough up $175 and being suddenly unemployed, she still evaded legal repercussions. The NYPD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/24\/knicks-fan-who-stole-trash-can-will-not-be-pursued-by-nypd\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told TMZ<\/a> Wednesday they had no complaint on file involving her theft &#8230; meaning they aren&#8217;t pursuing her.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fired Knicks Fan Fined Over Stolen Trash Can Published June 24, 2026 10:50 AM PDT The Knicks fan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,12,56,63,65,64,319,19598,19599],"class_list":["post-276957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}