An 82-year-old woman in Valley has been arrested on a charge that she didn't pay her $77 trash bill, court records show.
An 82-year-old Valley woman was arrested for not paying a $77.80 trash bill.
The arrest drew outrage on social media as criminalizing debt. A city official said the arrest came after multiple attempts to collect the bill and a history of suspended service. Court records show that she was arrested in 2006 for not paying a $206.54 trash bill. The case was later dismissed “upon compliance,” court records showed.
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