THIS CRIME IS TRASHY.

Yolanda Romero has seen a lot of things and a lot of change in her 49 years living in Oak Cliff. She raised fi ve children in her home and loves her neighborhood. But the recent crimes at her home have

The Victim: Yolanda Romero

The Crime: Criminal mischief

Date: Tuesday, May 27

Time: Between 11:30 p.m. (June 27) and 7:15 a.m. (June 28)

Location: 800 block of Buckalew her confounded and wondering what is going on.

On her neighborhood’s regular trash collection day, Wednesday, someone dumped garbage in her yard — a nasty mess that had her cleaning up for an hour.

“It happened two weeks in a row,” Romero says.

The fi rst Wednesday, someone left empty corn tortilla and cookie bags. The next Wednesday, it was baby diapers and empty water bottles — all left in grocery sacks.

The disgusting crime has left her baffl ed and possibly plotting a way to catch the culprit.

“I’m planning on spending the night in the living room in front of my big window to see if I can catch them this week,” she says. “But I’ll probably just fall asleep.”

Sgt. Kay Hughbanks with the Dallas Police Southwest Patrol Division says that this is a very unusual crime and that someone is possibly angry at the resident in some way.

“Or with the end of the school year at hand, kids get mischievous,” she says. “There is often a rise in criminal mischief complaints at the end of every school year, from broken windows to overturned trash cans.”

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SOURCE: Dallas Police Department