FORT WORTH – It sat ignored for years. Now a massive illegal dump in Fort Worth is finally being cleaned up, and that is just the beginning of the fallout from a recent I-Team investigation.
When CBS News Texas first flew over the property along Randol Mill Road in February, the debris field could be seen from the air. Hundreds of tons of shingles, tires, and other construction materials had been dumped in the heavily wooded 70-acre lot.
According to a Fort Worth police report, the city and the state have known about it since at least May 2022, when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality investigated and ordered it to be cleaned up. Neighbors say it stayed untouched.
The I-Team dug into records and found the land is owned by the family of a former congressional candidate named Shahzad “Raja” Chaudhry. He originally denied knowing anything about the dump, even though TCEQ records show investigators spoke with him in 2022 and listed him as the owner.