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Very early on Tuesday morning/Monday night (April 3rd) at about 1:00 AM I heard a loud truck circling the block at 14th avenue and E 30th street followed by what sounded like things being dumped. I looked out my window and spotted the truck, an orange/yellow-colored truck and saw it towing a flatbed trailer.

When I woke up later that morning I walked down the street and noticed that there was a massive pile of garbage where the truck had been working.

Its now April 4th and the pile of garbage is still there. They left the door to the trash area open behind the apartment building on the corner of 14th and E 30th, with large amounts of trash spilling out into the street. I also noticed that there's a camper parked next to this pile which I believe is owned by the same guy who was driving the orange/yellow truck as I have seen him around the neighborhood several times. He's a black guy who looks like he's probably about in his mid 30s.

The orange/yellow truck has a california license plate 32945B2. The trailer in tow has a nevada license plate 78730 M. The camper has a california license plate 94695G2.

The camper has been sitting in the neighborhood for a while and occasionally moves to different parking spots, but is usually parked somewhere around that corner. Last week it was parked near the front entrance of the apartment building on the corner on E 30th street.

I suspect the owner of this camper may be homeless and is living in the camper, and I suspect that he is also the owner of the orange/yellow truck (or at least was the guy operating it when it dumped all the trash on the corner).

The orange yellow truck has also been in the neighborhood for a while. It was sitting in the alley between E 30th street and E 29th Street behind the yellow apartment building for about two weeks and I recall on several occasions hearing the guy working on the engine back there.

What's most interesting about this is that when the dumping was happening that night at 1 AM, I saw several OPD patrol cars drive past it and not one of them stopped to investigate. Apparently OPD will let illegal dumping happen right in front of their eyes and still do nothing about it. It really cements the notion that OPD does not care about Oakland whatsoever.

There was also a possibly related dumping incident at this same location a few weeks ago. The garbage pile seemed to have originated from the garage of that building next to the yellow apartment building. It may have belonged to a tenant who was evicted from the building, and I guess they decided to just dump it all over the sidewalk out front. It might actually be the same guy who is doing it.