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FORMER MISSOURI HOG FARM COMPANY MANAGER ARRESTED
Release Date: 03/11/2002
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FOR RELEASE: MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002
FORMER MISSOURI HOG FARM COMPANY MANAGER ARRESTED
Luke C. Hester 202-564-7818 / hester.luke@epa.gov
Duane Connor, former Hog Farm Manager for Cargill Pork Inc., which operates a 17,000 pig farming operation in Martinsburg, Mo., was arrested on Feb. 21 on charges that he violated the Clean Water Act. The defendant allegedly allowed the illegal discharge of hog waste from holding ponds at Cargill’s farms into the Loutre River, which is a tributary of the Missouri River. Over 53,000 fish were killed along a five mile stretch of the Loutre River. Connor is also charged with allegedly making a false statement to an inspector who discovered the discharge. The case was investigated by EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Missouri Attorney General’s Office with the assistance of EPA’s National Enforcement Investigations Center. It is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. Louis. An indictment is merely an accusation and all defendants are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty in a court of law.
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