Crime & Safety
Bronx Woman Slapped with $219 Littering Fine
The following arrest information was supplied by the Stratford Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Stratford police handed a 28-year-old Bronx woman a $219 littering infraction last weekend for tossing a small plastic container on the ground at a local gas station.
Marina Martinez threw "an empty plastic yogurt or baby formula container" on the ground at the Irving Gas Station at 2000 Barnum Ave. before she got into a car and drove off, police said.
It was the same gas station where, less than a month ago, .
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When asked to pick up the trash and dispose of it properly, police said the New Yorker had "a good attitude and was apologetic."
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