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(Jinny Baeckler)

A Connecticut man was arrested for sending cardboard hauls to transfer stations in New Jersey and Long Island without a license from the comfort of his own home.

Hector Alers, suspected of having mafia ties, ordered a team of truck drivers to pick up curbside cardboard then sell it for $100 a ton earning nearly $6 million in the past four years, authorities told The NY Post.

The report said Alers allegedly struck a deal with dump operators to get away with the transfers off-the-books. The dump operators allegedly sent Alers cash for bringing them business, sources told The Post, and the drivers also received checks for the cardboard.

Alers declined to tell The Post whether or not he ran the operation. He was charged with failing to pay taxes on $1.4 million earnings, and was released on $25,000 bond, the report said.