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Hazardous waste conviction stands
Two men who was convicted following a 2010 jury trial is still guilty of several charges related to dumping hazardous waste in West Chester Twp., according to a 12th District Court of Appeals opinion issued Monday.
Attorneys for John Grinstead and Larry Lough — former executives of the now defunct company Tri E Technologies, formerly located at 100 Security Drive in Fairfield — claimed “the trial court erred in upholding the convictions” against their clients because “they were not supported by sufficient evidence and were against the weight of the evidence.”
They also said their trial court attorney, David Washington Jr., didn’t do his job.
According to the opinion written by Judge Robert Ringland, no evidence of errors were found during the jury trial, and disagreed Grinstead and Lough received “ineffective assistance” from Washington.
Judges Robert Hendrickson and Rachel Hutzel concurred in the opinion.
Washington represented the men during a four-day jury court. The law firm Sirkin, Kinsley and Nazzarine represented the men in appellate court.
On May 20, 2009, the Butler County grand jury indicted Grinstead and Lough for failing to prepare a hazardous waste manifest, the illegal transportation, disposal and storage of hazardous waste, and criminal endangering. According to the charges, Grinstead and Lough were accused of transporting and disposing of more than 100 tones of cathode ray tube glass — a component used in television and computer monitors that contain led — on a West Chester Twp. property owned by Ray Skinner.
Then on Dec. 16, 2009, Grinstead and Lough were indicted on similar charges for abandoning more than 9,000 pounds of hazardous materials in their Fairfield facility following their eviction. Lough was also indicted on pollution charges for ordering a former employee to dump several hundred gallons of acidic materials into a storm drain that flowed into a local pond.
They were found guilty by the jury trial and each sentenced to five years community control. Lough was fined $21,000, but $2,500 could be paid to MetroParks. Grinstead was fined $25,000. Both men were each ordered to pay more than $25,500 in restitution.
Additionally, both were ordered to split the fines levied against Tri E Technologies, which total $31,000.
They also have 100 hours of environmentally related community service that must be completed by next month, and have three years from sentencing to pay the fines and restitution.
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June 26, 2011 9:25 AM | Link to this
Their env. service should be cleaning up some type of waste.Put the bastard in the sewers where they belong. They should also pay the cost for the clean up in their ff facility. They have no respect for the enviorment and worse not respect for their own community