A antheral has been arrested successful transportation with the large-scale amerciable tipping of discarded successful Oxfordshire, constabulary person said.
The 39-year-old, from the Guildford area, was arrested connected Tuesday pursuing co-operation betwixt the Environment Agency (EA) and the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit.
Last week, the EA declared the 40ft-high upland of discarded adjacent Kidlington a "critical incident".
Anna Burns, the Environment Agency's country manager for the Thames, said: "The appalling amerciable discarded dump successful Kidlington has rightly provoked outrage implicit the imaginable consequences for the assemblage and environment.
"We person been moving circular the timepiece with the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit to bring the perpetrators to justness and marque them wage for this offence.
"Our investigative efforts person secured an apprehension today, which volition beryllium the archetypal measurement successful delivering justness for residents and punishing those responsible."
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