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• Shameless theft video highlights bigger problem, thefts go unreported Play Video

  March 7, 2023 2:01 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Retail theft is a problem all over the country. It's no secret, it also happens in and around Baton Rouge. What you might not know is a lot of it goes unreported. If you look around the parking lot and the building itself at the Walgreens... more »

• Mid City drugstore makes changes following 2 On Your Side report about bad behavior Play Video

  December 14, 2022 4:40 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Four months after 2 On Your Side exposed the filth happening behind a dumpster at a Baton Rouge Walgreens , the drugstore company is finally taking action. For months, Brian McGowen has been capturing surveillance footage of what's been going on between his fence and a... more »

• Business owner worried dumpster divers are liability Play Video

  April 11, 2022 3:56 PM

  BATON ROUGE - It's a strange problem for a business owner. Dumpster diving is getting out of control and now there's the worry that the trash bin is attracting some dangerous attention. Stacey Blanchard owns Lagniappe Frame Shoppe, a frame shop and art gallery, off Jefferson Highway in Baton... more »

• Dumpsters full of trash finally removed from neighboring apartment complex Play Video

  October 23, 2020 5:56 PM

  BATON ROUGE - After multiple requests to clean up the junk, Jan Hinson says her fight is over since two large dumpsters full of trash have been removed from a neighboring apartment complex. "They said they're going to keep it clean from this point forward," Hinson said. On... more »

• Neighborhood feuding with apartment over trash, want it gone Play Video

  September 28, 2020 6:30 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A couple of dumpsters in an apartment complex's parking lot are filling nearby neighbors with disgust. Jan Hinson is President of the Plantation Trace Resident's Association and contacted 2 On Your Side for help. She has been monitoring two dumpsters full of trash in the northeast... more »

• Mysterious dumpster full of trash bewilders neighbors Play Video

  August 6, 2020 6:09 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A large metal dumpster full of garbage has become a neighborhood's latest mystery. It appears the only group who knows who's responsible for the trash is the company that put it there in the first place. The large Waste Pro dumpster showed up in a... more »

• Courtesy trash pickup Saturday collected garbage from apartment after 2 On Your Side report Play Video

  August 12, 2019 6:26 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Landlords and apartment building owners will now be responsible for the disposal of bulky items put at the curb by their tenants. The City-Parish says it's not going to do it anymore. Monday afternoon (8/12), 2 On Your Side learned that Republic Services, the company contracted... more »

• Property owner says garbage company won't pick up dumpster full of trash Play Video

  June 29, 2018 6:25 PM

  CENTRAL - A few WBRZ viewers have emailed and called about problems they're having with Waste Pro. Some residents report that they have gone weeks without having their trash collected on regularly scheduled pick-up days. Now imagine a dumpster outside of your business for six months. That's the case... more »

• Prisoner hides in dumpster, gets stuck in trash truck

  November 27, 2017 8:55 AM

  PHILADELPHIA- Officials say a man trying to flee from a Philadelphia prison halfway house by hiding in a dumpster had to be freed from a trash truck. WCAU-TV reports it took firefighters almost two hours to remove the bags of trash and free the man from the truck's compactor... more »

• Flood dumpster removed after On Your Side Report Play Video

  January 11, 2017 6:00 PM

  DENHAM SPRINGS - After several months of complaints, a dumpster that floated into a woman's yard during August's flooding has finally been removed. The removal comes after WBRZ aired a story about Kim Adams' situation Wednesday. She says she previously contacted Waste Management multiple times with no success. ... more »

• Man arrested for starting dumpster fire

  December 13, 2016 10:17 AM

  BATON ROUGE – The Baton Rouge Fire Department has reported the arrest of one man that started a dumpster fire in the Sherwood Forest, Coursey Boulevard area. On Dec. 3 around 11 p.m. BRFD responded to multiple dumpster fires. Later BRFD received a report of a man seen responsible... more »

• NOPD: Body found inside burning dumpster

  August 1, 2016 8:32 AM

  NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans police are investigating the discovery of a body inside a burning trash bin. Police says the man's severely burned body was found by firefighters just before 6 .a.m. Monday Police say they are working the crime as a homicide. The unidentified body was been taken... more »