BREAKING NEWS | 2 men, company fined for illegal dumping

YOUNGSTOWN — Two businessmen and the company they work for pleaded guilty this morning to illegal waste-disposal charges before Judge Maureen A. Sweeney of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, and the judge put the men on four years probation.

David J. Gennaro Sr., 70, of Silver Fox Run, Boardman; Frank A. Naples, 66, of Thunderbird Drive, Poland; and Gennaro’s company, Soil Remediation Inc., entered the pleas after charges were brought by the Ohio Attorney General’s Environmental Enforcement Section.

The company was fined $60,000; Gennaro fined $35,000; and Naples fined $20,000.

Gennaro is listed as company president and Naples as plant manager on the indictment.

The defendants were accused of illegal solid waste disposal at 6065 Arrel-Smith Road, Lowellville, in 2012 and 2013.

Between January and September 2013, prosecutors said natural gas drilling-related waste, including brine, crude oil and natural gas, were illegally dumped there.

Members of FrackFree Mahoning Valley picketed the county courthouse before and appeared at the plea hearing.

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