{"id":85656,"date":"2026-08-16T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-to-face-charges-over-illegal-waste-dumping-in-marsa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T10:17:00","slug":"man-to-face-charges-over-illegal-waste-dumping-in-marsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/man-to-face-charges-over-illegal-waste-dumping-in-marsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Man to face charges over illegal waste dumping in Marsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man to face charges over illegal waste dumping in Marsa<\/p>\n<p>A man who was filmed illegally dumping waste in a Marsa street over the weekend is set to face charges after police identified him within 24 hours of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Malta Police Force said in a statement on Facebook that it has identified the man responsible for the illegal dumping of waste in Triq is-Serkin, Marsa, earlier this weekend and will be issuing charges against him for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>A video circulating on social media &#8211; shared by the mayor of Marsa, Luke Farrugia &#8211; depicted a man and his child unloading garbage out of their pick-up truck and dumping it illegally onto the side of the street before leaving the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the police said that they identified the person involved within less than 24 hours from the incident, which was captured on CCTV footage.<\/p>\n<p>The police said that the person involved admitted to their actions once approached. The person was also informed that charges will be issued against him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-08-16\/local-news\/Man-to-face-charges-over-illegal-waste-dumping-in-Marsa-6736292155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man to face charges over illegal waste dumping in Marsa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man to face charges over illegal waste dumping in Marsa A man who was filmed illegally dumping waste in a Marsa street over the weekend is set to face charges after police identified him within&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-85656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}