An Arizona man is facing up to five years in prison after being caught living illegally on national forest grounds for nearly a decade, with roughly a half-ton of trash strewn around his campsite in what one U.S. Forest Service officer described as “possibly one of the worst residential cases he has seen,” according to federal court filings reviewed by The Independent.
“I was flabbergasted by the amount of debris in the area,” the officer wrote in one of numerous citations given to the man, identified in the filings as Mark Aaron Gatz.
