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Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
City of Albuquerque looks to catch up on backlog of needed trash bins
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) –Taking out the trash hasn't been so straightforward for some Albuquerque property owners since last summer. The city's struggled to swap out or fix up busted trash bins. 'We are a little over our general timeline, we like to get those bins out,' said Alex Bukoski, spokesman, City of Albuquerque Solid Waste Department. Story continues below Entertainment: First-of-its-kind indoor pickleball facility coming to northeast Albuquerque Community: Albuquerque church leaning on faith after 2 members killed by their son Environment: What should New Mexicans do if they come across a raccoon? For the last year, Albuquerque's been slowly digging itself out of a backlog in replacing the trash bins. 'The supply chains still recovering from COVID, once they get backlogged hard to get back on track,' said Bukoski. In the past, the city had two suppliers providing tens of thousands of new bins each year. But last fall, city councilors highlighted how long some are waiting for new bins. 'He said he'd been waiting a month for the trash can,' said Albuquerque City Councilor Klarissa Peña last year. 'I just wanted to ask if you could add my request for a bin as well, that I put in on July 29th,' said city councilor Nichole Rogers, last year. Since then, the city has made some changes. 'Because of these issues that we've been dealing with our supply chain, we actually went and got a third supplier this year,' said Bukoski. The city said it has around 600 requests for new trash and recycling bins waiting for a response this week. Usually, the Solid Waste Department gets more than a hundred new requests each day. They're waiting on roughly 4,000 more bins to get here in the next few weeks. 'When we get those new bins in, we can start to battle some of that backlog,' said Bukoski. But the Solid Waste Department reminds people at home that if you've been waiting too long, call the city again because crews are supposed to respond to most calls in two to six weeks. 'Make sure that you're contacting 311, you're getting those status updates. We are doing our best to get those out there as soon as possible,' said Bukoski. They also said that after someone calls 311, solid waste will always follow up with a call to get more details, like whether the bin should be repaired or replaced. 'We don't want anybody to have a broken trash can or a broken recycling bin. It's unacceptable, and we want to make sure we can fix it. But we also have to make sure we're managing our resources, managing our staffing,' said Bukoski. The city said a home's first replacement bin is free, but any others will cost $51. That's about $10 less than the city pays for them. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBC
18-03-2025
- CBC
U.S. man guilty of sexual assault, 'nefarious' online campaign against Ottawa teen
A Pennsylvania man has been convicted of sexual assault, criminal harassment and other crimes, including waging an online campaign of abuse against a minor from Ottawa. David Bukoski was 18 in 2013 when he met a 13-year-old girl from Ottawa through the online gaming community. What turned into a romantic relationship morphed into a disturbing campaign of harassment, with Bukoski also being found guilty of distributing of intimate images. The case was a "startling account of how internet technology can be used for nefarious purposes," Superior Court Justice Adriana Doyle wrote in her detailed March 12 decision. Already convicted in the United States for running an online attack-for-hire service, Bukoski appeared virtually for his Canadian trial. He's now expected to have an extradition hearing to be sent to Canada for sentencing. Met online over Minecraft Bukoski and the victim, who can't be identified and was cited as S.M. in the decision, both played Minecraft, a virtual construction game, and would chat in online groups dedicated to the gaming community. Bukoski's group, by his own admission, was steeped in toxicity and home to verbal abuse, including misogyny and racism. Bukoski was a lifelong gamer with superior skills and a reputation for launching online attacks. The romantic relationship started online but later involved three in-person meetings: one at a gaming conference in Brooklyn, N.Y., attended by S.M. and her father, and two visits to Ottawa in August and September 2017 by Bukoski. Bukoski sexually assaulted her in 2017 during one of his visits to the nation's capital, despite her repeated refusals. He was abusive during the relationship and made fake suicide attempts. A teenager at the time, S.M. started dating someone else that fall. Intimate images sent to school Bukoski started a relentless online campaign of harassment aimed at her, her new boyfriend and both their families. He freely admitted to the criminal harassment, beginning his barrage of unwanted emails to S.M. in October 2017, and publicly posting her personal information, including her address. The court ruled that Bukoski engaged in persistent online harassment and non-consensual distribution of S.M.'s images, leading to a conviction on multiple counts. He began stalking, making repetitive phone calls and sending threatening emails. He sent intimate images of S.M. to her school and employers and posted them online, too. He also sent in false bomb threats to schools and the Ottawa airport. Bukoski would send unwanted pizza deliveries and other unrequested packages to S.M.'s home and harassed her parents at work. He operated several different online accounts to manipulate and harass S.M. Bukoski maintained an "online fiction" that he was an Ottawa resident attending Carleton University and told the RCMP this was done to discourage other possible suitors for S.M. At one point, he sent a threat in the name of S.M's boyfriend, who was arrested at gunpoint and kept in detention for five hours. House firebombed Bukoski also conspired with others, including an online friend who was a minor when the two began communicating and admitted to taking part in the online harassment campaign. In February 2018, the friend, Gavin Casdorph, planted a firebomb at the boyfriend's family home when S.M. was sleeping inside. The explosion damaged their residence and vehicles but did not cause any injuries. Bukoski was implicated in the firebombing, but charges against him related to it were dismissed, as were charges for arson and attempted murder Casdorph testified against Bukoski. He admitted to planning and executing the firebombing but alleged Bukoski played a role in orchestrating it. While the court found it probable that Bukoski provided information to the friend and may have manipulated him, it ruled the evidence did not meet the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Casdorph's testimony was scrutinized for inconsistencies and a lack of corroborating evidence linking Bukoski directly to the attack. Convicted of other crimes in U.S. The online harassment against S.M. stopped after Bukoski was arrested in July 2018. The trial spanned 60 days stretched out over three years, included dismissed challenges under Section 11(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, known as a Jordan application. Bukoski had previously pleaded guilty in the United States in 2019 for operating a long-running online service that allowed paying users to attack domains and networks. He was sentenced in 2020 to five years of probation and six months of "community confinement" after an FBI investigation found up to 80,000 subscribers had used the services between 2011 and 2018.
