Middlesbrough Council brought the case against Brian and Garren Mulraney following an investigation by the authority’s Environmental Enforcement team.
The members of staff were alerted to two incidents of fly-tipping, one on Saltersgill Avenue and another on a private road next to the A19 Mandale junction.
The fly-tip at Saltersgill consisted of snake containers, reptile containers, dead snakes and reptiles and general household waste alongside receipts and letters.
Evidence at the scene led the officers to an address in Billingham and a member of the public who was quizzed on the matter said they had paid Brian Mulraney £2,080 for the house clearance.
The second incident off the A19 involved the dumping of a pile of bricks, the court heard.
Further evidence gathered by the council team led the knowledge that a blue van was used in the offending.
At Teesside Magistrates Court the older Mulraney, Brian, 79, pleaded guilty to depositing or knowingly causing or permitting a deposit of waste at Saltersgill Avenue on or around September 3, 2022, and knowingly causing by being the vehicle owner a deposit of waste by that vehicle on a private road adjacent to the A19 on or around September 28, 2022.
His son Garren, 50, pleaded guilty to a charge of depositing or knowingly causing or permitting the deposit at Saltersgill on or around September, 28, 2022.
Brian Mulraney, of Lambton Road, Grove Hill, was fined £528 with an additional £200 victim surcharge and ordered to pay £220 legal costs, £120 clean up costs and £2,019 costs for the vehicle.
Garren Mulraney, of Crescent Road, central Middlesbrough, was fined £320 with a £128 victim surcharge and ordered to pay £340 costs.
Middlesbrough Mayor Andy Preston said: “There is absolutely no excuse for this - and we will always prosecute fly-tipping when we can gather evidence.
“We will always clamp down on the disgusting people who dump their rubbish at the expense of decent people.”
