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NJ Business Admits To Polluting CT Brook, Causing Fish Kill — Fined $1M: DOJ NJ Business Admits To Polluting CT Brook, Causing Fish Kill — Fined $1M: DOJ
NJ Business Admits To Polluting CT Brook, Causing Fish Kill — Fined $1M: DOJ A New Jersey company has been ordered to pay a $1 million fine for violating the Clean Water Act after an unauthorized discharge of a hazardous material into a Connecticut waterway killed over 150 fish and contaminated the local ecosystem, federal authorities said.  National Water Main Cleaning Company (NWMCC), in Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced in federal court for knowingly releasing uncured geopolymer mortar into Cuff Brook while refurbishing a culvert pipe in Cheshire, the US Attorney for Connecticut said.  The project, which took place in July 2019, was supposed to follow s…

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CT Man Sentenced For Narcotics Distribution CT Man Sentenced For Narcotics Distribution
CT Man Sentenced For Narcotics Distribution A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for distributing narcotics. Hartford County resident McClendon Jones, age 40, of Bloomfield, was sentenced on Friday, Jan. 8, by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley to the prison time, followed by four years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham. According to court documents and statements made in court, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2019, Jones sped away from investigators who were conducting a traffic stop in Hartford and his car sideswiped a city transit bus.   He eventually lo…

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by Kathy Reakes