Businessman Gets Jail Term for Toxic Dumping
From Times Staff Reports
The owner of a Santa Ana metal plating company was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty Friday to dumping toxic metals into the sewer.
Bhabani “Bob” Mohanty, president of Engineering Plating Corp., was accused of pouring into the sewer several metals, including hexavalent chromium--a suspected carcinogen, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Nick Thompson.
Mohanty, 38, pleaded guilty to one felony count.
“He’d been dealing with this stuff in an illegal manner and a sloppy way for 10 years,” Thompson said.
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