Mississippi business owner admits to role in dumping industrial waste into city sewer – Magnolia State Live

A Mississippi enterprise proprietor admitted Wednesday in federal courtroom to dumping industrial waste right into a metropolis’s sewer system.

The co-owner of Gold Coast Commodities, Inc., who serves as vice chairman of the Brandon-based fats and oil recycling enterprise, pled responsible at present for his half in illegally discharging industrial waste into the Jackson Sewer System, introduced U.S. Lawyer Darren J. LaMarca and Particular Agent in Cost Charles Carfagno with the U.S. Environmental Safety Company, Prison Investigation Division’s Southeast Space Department.

Throughout courtroom at present, Robert David Douglas, 60, of Flowood, admitted authorizing funds on behalf of Gold Coast for the transportation and disposal of its industrial waste at a business entity in Jackson, which on account of his negligence, induced the waste to be trucked and discharged to a facility which was not a authorized discharge level designated by the Jackson Wastewater Therapy System to obtain the waste.

Douglas can be sentenced on November 9, 2022 at 2:30 p.m. A federal decide will decide any sentence after contemplating the U.S. Sentencing Pointers and different statutory components.

The case was investigated by the Environmental Safety Company, Prison Investigation Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brandon Police Division, and the Mississippi Division of Environmental High quality, with cooperation from the Metropolis of Brandon and the Metropolis of Jackson municipal governments.