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From Recycling Dream to Environmental Nightmare: Maryland Man Gets Jail Time For Tire Dump: AG From Recycling Dream to Environmental Nightmare: Maryland Man Gets Jail Time For Tire Dump: AG
From Recycling Dream to Environmental Nightmare: Maryland Man Gets Jail Time For Tire Dump: AG A Maryland man is heading to jail after illegally dumping more than 250,000 scrap tires in Allegany County, leaving others to deal with the environmental fallout and cleanup efforts. Michel Osei, 48, of Hanover, pleaded guilty to 17 environmental crimes after abandoning a scrap tire operation in Westernport that investigators in Maryland say violated nearly every regulation on the books. The fallout resulted in Osei receiving five years of incarceration, with all but 45 days suspended, along with five years of probation.  Investigators from the Maryland Attorney's General's Office say…