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PA MEDICAL WASTE HAULER AND CO. SENTENCED IN INS. SCHEME

Release Date: 02/19/97
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PA MEDICAL WASTE HAULER AND CO. SENTENCED IN INS. SCHEME

FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1997

MEDICAL WASTE HAULER AND COMPANY SENTENCED IN INSURANCE SCHEME

Carnell Rivers of Hampton, S.C., and his corporation, Carnell Rivers Trucking Inc., were sentenced on Feb. 11, in the U.S. District Court in Charleston, S.C., on five felony counts of mailing false insurance documents to obtain permits to haul infectious medical waste in South Carolina, Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania. The wastes were transported to a facility in Hampton County, S.C., where they were incinerated. Insurance was not obtained which is  required to cover clean up cost in the event of an accident. Rivers was sentenced to six months home confinement as a special condition of three years probation and was fined $5,000. Carnell Rivers Trucking Inc., which is currently not in operation, was sentenced to five years probation.  The case was investigated by EPA's Criminal Investigation Division and the Office of Criminal Investigations of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

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