When you take your car to a shop for new tires, the technicians remove the old ones and store them on-site. A recycling company then buys them at a low rate and takes them to a facility. The facility shreds the old tires into smaller pieces and repurposes them into playground mulch, asphalt, or fuel.
Police uncovered a disturbing scene last week, finding around 10,000 tires dumped at four different sites across the city. When detectives began their investigation, the first step was to ask local tire shops who’d been collecting their used tires.
Several tire shops had one thing in common: 30-year-old Ivan Cruz…