Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer
To Frank Crisafulli, the trash-filled warehouse in Rotterdam is a major migraine, a nightmare of publicity that threatens to stain his company's image.
To Maurice Hinchey, it's a symbol, a warning of what lies ahead if the state fails to regulate garbage haulers.
"The state has been a little bit slow in realizing how serious this problemis," remarks Hinchey, a Democratc state assemblyman from Ulster County who focuses on environmental issues.
Hinchey pointed out that filling a warehouse with trash might violate the state's solid-waste regulations, but it's an offense that carries no criminalpenalties.
With disposal costs skyrocketing, he said, the law must be toughened to guard against midnight dumping. In particular, he fears that more and more garbage from Long Island and New York City will make its way upstate.
"We want to put in criminal penalties, so illegal dumpers, in addition to being fined, could be locked up," he said.
Crisafulli Brothers Inc., a food-service company, leased the warehouse in January to Lester Gray, a Putnam County trucker who supposedly wanted a place to store "household products."
In mid-February, after the rental check bounced, company officials discovered bales of trash …
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