Supersized sting snags litterbug
By RON SELAK JR. Tribune Chronicle
BROOKFIELD — Bill Kilar’s lovin’ it, that is he’s lovin’ not waking up on most mornings and finding trash tossed in his yard.
Mildred A. VanLanen might not share the same feelings, however.
It’s apparent VanLanen’s lovin’ McDonalds’ hashbrowns and milk jugs due to the frequency of the paper bags and empty bottles she nonchalantly flung in Kilar’s yard and other yards along Obermiyer Road.
On Thursday, the 53-year-old VanLanen was ordered by Eastern District Court Judge Ron Rice to 200 hours of community service on two charges of littering in connection to a pair of stings done by Brookfield police, who caught her twice tossing the trash from her vehicle.
Her service: Picking up garbage instead of spending 20 days in jail, the judge ordered.
‘‘There were quite a few mornings it either was in my yard, a couple yards down or along the roadway,’’ said Kilar, 546 Obermiyer Road S.E.
VanLanen could not be reached for comment.
Township police Chief Dan Faustino said on Nov. 1 and 3 his officers, already having an idea of who was tossing the trash, marked two bags at the Warren Sharon Road McDonalds — where they say VanLanen stopped daily for a breakfast of hashbrown, milk and sometimes a breakfast sandwich — and then located the bags near the intersection of state Route 82 and Obermiyer Road and then again in the 6600 block of Warren-Sharon Road.
‘‘That’s how we figured it out because she orders the same thing every morning,’’ Faustino said.
Officers wrote the numbers five and 21 on the bags for identification, the chief said.
VanLanen also was fined $300 and given a year of probation.
It’s not the first time VanLanen has been charged with littering.
The chief said that in October 2004, she was charged with the minor misdemeanor after being caught littering in about the same area and for a time after that, the bags stopped appearing. But they slowly started to make a comeback and then became steady, Faustino said.
Kilar said he even tailed the woman after seeing her at the restaurant.
‘‘The wife and I went down to McDonalds one morning on a Saturday and happened to see her there and that particular day, she threw it out once she hit (state Route) 82,’’ he said.
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By RON SELAK JR. Tribune Chronicle
BROOKFIELD — Bill Kilar’s lovin’ it, that is he’s lovin’ not waking up on most mornings and finding trash tossed in his yard.
Mildred A. VanLanen might not share the same feelings, however.
It’s apparent VanLanen’s lovin’ McDonalds’ hashbrowns and milk jugs due to the frequency of the paper bags and empty bottles she nonchalantly flung in Kilar’s yard and other yards along Obermiyer Road.
On Thursday, the 53-year-old VanLanen was ordered by Eastern District Court Judge Ron Rice to 200 hours of community service on two charges of littering in connection to a pair of stings done by Brookfield police, who caught her twice tossing the trash from her vehicle.
Her service: Picking up garbage instead of spending 20 days in jail, the judge ordered.
‘‘There were quite a few mornings it either was in my yard, a couple yards down or along the roadway,’’ said Kilar, 546 Obermiyer Road S.E.
VanLanen could not be reached for comment.
Township police Chief Dan Faustino said on Nov. 1 and 3 his officers, already having an idea of who was tossing the trash, marked two bags at the Warren Sharon Road McDonalds — where they say VanLanen stopped daily for a breakfast of hashbrown, milk and sometimes a breakfast sandwich — and then located the bags near the intersection of state Route 82 and Obermiyer Road and then again in the 6600 block of Warren-Sharon Road.
‘‘That’s how we figured it out because she orders the same thing every morning,’’ Faustino said.
Officers wrote the numbers five and 21 on the bags for identification, the chief said.
VanLanen also was fined $300 and given a year of probation.
It’s not the first time VanLanen has been charged with littering.
The chief said that in October 2004, she was charged with the minor misdemeanor after being caught littering in about the same area and for a time after that, the bags stopped appearing. But they slowly started to make a comeback and then became steady, Faustino said.
Kilar said he even tailed the woman after seeing her at the restaurant.
‘‘The wife and I went down to McDonalds one morning on a Saturday and happened to see her there and that particular day, she threw it out once she hit (state Route) 82,’’ he said.
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