PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) —` Attorneys for an embattled scrap metal yard asked a judge on Monday to dismiss a two-year-old complaint against the business.
In March 2024, the city sent a cease and desist letter to Rhode Island Recycled Metals to halt all operations because the Providence business was operating without a junk shop license.
Mayor Brett Smiley’s administration took the business to R.I. Superior Court a month later to ask a judge to issue a temporary restraining order, arguing that the scrapyard was ignoring the cease and desist…