Thursday, August 26, 2010
Beckley Man Sentenced
WEST VIRGINIA....
Forty-three year old Rodney T. Hoffman of Beckley has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $133,819 to the Environmental Protection Agency. Hoffman admitted in April he cleaned out plating tanks and stored hazardous waste materials, including sulfuric acid and chromic acid, on a plating shop site without a permit. Hoffman's business partner, Christopher Shawn Mills, pleaded guilty in June to similar environmental counts. Sentencing is set for September 22nd.