Man Arrested for Dumping Hundreds of Tires Near River

An Atlanta man has been arrested after police say he dumped 200 tires in Mableton near the Chattahoochee River.

Police say 55-year-old Melvin Bernard Head dumped the tires on a property adjacent to the Chattahoochee River on Discovery Boulevard, near the Discovery Park at Riverline.

According to Head's arrest warrant, he dumped the tires with the help of an unnamed person around 8 p.m. on June 6. Police say the pair used a stolen U-Haul van in the crime. The van was recovered on June 11, and found with even more tires in its cargo area.

Head was arrested by Cobb County sheriff deputies on July 8 from the Fulton County Jail, where he was being held for a failure to appear warrant.

His original charge in Fulton was dumping biomedical or hazardous waste for commercial purposes, which he got after a Sandy Springs Police officer found him dumping tires out of a U-Haul in Atlanta on an unknown earlier date.

Head is being held in the Cobb County Jail without bond and on a hold for the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.