FL Keys Man Dumped 30 Mattresses On Stock Island Street: Sheriff

MONROE COUNTY, FL — A Key West man was arrested and charged Wednesday after leaving more than 30 mattresses and box springs on a Stock Island street, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post.

Michael Luis Herrera, 40, was charged with illegal dumping, the agency said.

Monroe County Solid Waste Management reported the mattresses to the sheriff’s office on Tuesday.

The bedding, which weighs more than 1,700 pounds, was dumped on Front Street and 4th Avenue, MCSO said. The mattresses came from a Key West hotel.

A manager at the hotel told investigators that Herrera was hired to replace the beds there.

Herrera dumped the mattresses on Monday hoping that people would take them, detectives said. He said he planned to return the next day to remove what was left, but he never went back to the area and the mattresses were left on the street.

“I want to thank Monroe County Solid Waste Management Director Cheryl Sullivan for her help in this case,” Sheriff Rick Ramsay said. “I believe better, cleaner, safer streets means better, cleaner, safer, neighborhoods, and arresting those who trash our neighborhoods is a top priority for me.”