Troy woman cited for illegally leaving items in parents’ neighbor’s dumpster

By Charles Bolinger

Editor • An Edwardsville resident who helped a Troy resident in doing some clean-up work on a property in town ran into an issue on July 4.

Perry Conour assisted Regina Berry with the cleaning. Conour told Berry about his findings and she called Troy Police. Berry called Troy Police after Conour found multiple boxes in a dumpster on Berry’s property that he told police were not there on July 2, the previous time he was at Berry’s home.

Berry also indicated to the responding officer, Erik Mix, that she wanted to press charges against the suspect.

“I observed multiple pizza boxes, a television box and an Amazon package addressed to a Kailey Boatwright,” Mix wrote in his official incident field report. Boatwright lives in Troy, too.

Mix contacted Boatwright at home and she told him that her parents lived next door to Berry and that they had had issues with each other for years.

Boatwright admitted that Berry did not give her permission to dump anything in the dumpster and that she left the items in the dumpster on either July 2 or July 3 because she could not dump them near her residence. She added that the items she put in the dumpster were recyclables, not trash.

“I did not observe any trash in the bins belonging to Kailey Boatwright,” Mix wrote.

Mix issued her the following citation: dumping garbage.

Boatwright was provided with the conditions of pretrial release, to which she agreed and signed. She also received copies of the paperwork. All images associated with this case were update to the police department’s evidence drive.