ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — The wife of an Altamonte Springs man arrested after officials said he didn’t clean up his property as required by his probation, believes authorities have overstepped their authority.
Alan Davis, known as the “Junk Man” by many of his neighbors, was arrested Thursday on a probation violation.
He previously pleaded no contest to felony dumping charges for the state of his property, which is littered with junk and debris.
After being arrested in December, he was given 60 days to clear the piles of junk that have accumulated on his property over the years.
As part of his plea, Davis will have to pay $10,000 in fines from when the country hauled away 35 tons of trash from his home in September 2015.
He told the judge he will clean up his home and get it up to code. Davis also promised to work with code enforcement.
Along with the vehicles and trash, Davis was also required to tear down a shed and rooftop platform.
His wife, Aileen Davis, said they have been working to get the property cleaned up and in the meantime have been putting up a 6-foot fence to block the property from view.
That, she said, should be enough.
“What’s behind my fence is my business and nobody else’s,” Aileen Davis said.
Her husband has been accumulating the items on his property for years and Aileen Davis said he’s been reluctant to throw things out.
“He has a saying that says, ‘I find something that I don’t need right now, but six months from now I’ll probably need it,’” she said.
Aileen Davis admitted that there have been times that she told her husband that they had enough stuff on the property.
In general, though, she didn’t see why code enforcement has such a problem with them.
“Gotta be known as something,” Aileen Davis said about her husband’s “Junk Man” nickname. “(It) doesn’t bother me.”
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