Dumpster hideout prompts mental exam
A man hid in the back of a garbage truck near East Wenatchee on Tuesday, prompting authorities to take him to receive mental health treatment.
The site manager of the Waste Management Land Fill, 191 S. Webb Ave.,saw the man crawl out of the back of a garbage tuck as employees were dumping it into the land fill.
The man was not injured. He told Douglas County sheriff's deputies he was ridding in the dumpster "to escape people who were chasing him," accoridng to a news release.
A deputy drove the man to a hosptial for a mental health evaluation. He does not face criminal charges.