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PA OHIO DUMPER SENTENCED
Release Date: 09/26/97
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1997
OHIO DUMPER SENTENCED
Noble Cunningham of Mansfield, Ohio, was sentenced on Sept. 19, by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to serve four years and eight months in federal prison and ordered to pay $147, 716 in restitution for cleanup costs to Thomas Mimms and $10,000 in restitution to the Westview Sanitary Landfill in Atlanta. Cunningham was convicted May 15, on four felony counts of violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. He was the operator of R&D Chemical Co., which illegally stored over 600,000 pounds of hazardous barium chromate sludge on a farm near Mansfield. When the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency undertook an administrative action, Cunningham had the sludge illegally transported to Rose Laboratories Inc., in Brookhaven, Ga., where most of it was abandoned on Thomas Mimms’ property. Some of it was also dumped at the Westview Sanitary Landfill. The capture and prosecution of Cunningham was the result of teamwork by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Marshalls’ Service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta, the Ohio EPA, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation and the Logan County Ohio Sheriff’s Office.
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