Another job well done by the HCSO

Brownsboro resident Danny Dickerson is singing high praises to the Henderson County Sheriff's Department these days following their prompt response to an illegal dumping by his property last month.

On Friday, December 22, Dickerson came home from work early to cut his grass and found a trailer load of trash and junk had been dumped on the right-of-way in a culvert between his property and Farm-to-Market Road 3079.

"There were some old chairs, jugs, a lot of junk, and bags of trash," Dickerson said. "This was just stuff that's left over when somebody moves."

Dickerson called the HCSO and within an hour a deputy arrived to take a report.

"He took a picture and said he would turn it over to the people in charge of illegal dumping," Dickerson said. "Well, I thought right before Christmas they're not going to do anything."

The following Friday, Dec. 29, Dickerson was pleasantly surprised when HCSO Special Assignment Deputy John Haverly showed up to investigate. After sifting through the trash, Haverly found enough information to track it back to a rental house in a subdivision on Lake Palestine.

The tenant of the house advised Haverly he had recently moved in and had hired two 16-year-old juvenile males to clean up the place and haul the trash off to a dumpsite or landfill. The tenant gave Haverly the name of one of the boys, then contacted the boy to tell him of Haverly's visit.

"Apparently he (the juvenile) contacted the other boy and they decided to go clean it up themselves," Haverly said.

Before the boys could clean up the mess, however, Friday's severe rain storm blew in.

"The trash was dumped between Mr. Dickerson's property and the road on a rightof way situated where water flows," Haverly said. "As soon as water got up, it was destined to wash on his place. Which it did."

On Tuesday, Jan. 2, the boys returned and cleaned up the entire mess including what had washed down under a fenceline.

"The boys went back and cleaned it up before I ever made contact with them," Haverly said. "They knew they had done wrong."

Haverly said no charges were filed against the juveniles, as they had not been in trouble before, and had cleaned up the mess on their own.

Dickerson said he appreciates Haverly's dedication to his job.

"As a citizen I know what he did for me," he said. "I have a lot of friends in the county that have experienced the same thing. I told them you gotta call. Don't you know they're out there to help you? I'm just hoping people will learn not to do this. Here in East Texas is where it's worse. It's appalling that people will do this where we live."