Prince George’s County vows to crackdown on nuisance and unkempt properties

When she sits in her yard and looks across the street, Arminda Pinea doesn’t have much to look at. The yard where a house once sat is covered over with weeds, brush and ivy. Much of it was at least waist high.

The only thing that soared higher was the massive pile of tractor-trailer-sized tires, dozens of which were left behind over the last year.

“We don’t like to see the tires there,” she said, noting how no one knew who left them there. “It’s bad. Animals are coming, mosquitoes, everything.”

Shortly after a Thursday news conference ended, cleaning crews hauled in a dumpster and yard tools and got to work tidying things up.

Prince George’s County Executive Aisha Braveboy, who led the news conference, vowed t

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