CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — The family that owns a Clayton County property told Channel 2 Action News they're so sick of getting tires dumped there, they put up a gate to try to stop it from happening.
They believe the man who dumped the tires is 35-year-old Donald LeVerette, the same man who is accused of dumping more than 100,000 tires all over Clayton County.
Over the past few years, Eddy Steele watched the piles of tires on his family’s land grow while the value of his property shrunk.
“I just don’t see why people think they have the right to defile people’s property that doesn’t belong to them,” Steele said.
Steele believes LeVerette has dumped tires on his property on the Fulton-Clayton county line in Riverdale as many as 10 times.
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One time, Steele told said his property manager caught LeVerette red-handed.
“He saw the vehicle up there and he went up there and made the call to police,” Steele said.
But he got away.
Police said LeVerette dumps the tires for local tire shops, making plenty of money in the process.
They said the U.S. Marshals are now involved in the search for LeVerette. It’s a search Steele believes will be over soon.
“I just don’t see how these people think they’ll keep getting away with it. At some point, they’re gonna get caught. They have to know that,” Steele said.
If you have any information about where LeVerette could be, call Clayton County police.
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