San Gabriel Valley : SCAVENGER HUNT
The rising cost of newsprint is luring an increasing number of scavengers to Pasadena households’ curbside recycling bins.
Those illicit entrepreneurs better not mess with former Mayor Rick Cole.
Cole recently made a citizen’s arrest of a woman he allegedly caught helping herself to his cans and newspapers before the city could pick them up.
“She was what I believe you’d call a professional scavenger,” Cole said. “She wasn’t someone on the streets.”
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