A Jacksonville man who worked for a portable toilet company is accused of illegally dumping hundreds of gallons of waste into a wooded area on the Northside.
WJCT News partner News4Jax reports that on Jan. 11, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Environmental Crimes Unit arrested 48-year-old Samuel Jones, who was an employee of Floaters Portable Sanitation at the time, on two felony counts of commercial dumping and two misdemeanor counts of nuisance injurious to health.
Working on tips from neighbors, state investigators had been watching a wooded area off Cedar Point Road near homes that were under construction. That’s where, according to the DEP, Jones dumped about 700 gallons of raw sewage.
The city’s Environmental Quality Division was called out to collect samples of the raw sewage for testing and evidence.
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