The sentencing of Cumberland-based Berkeley Transportation Co. has been set for May 19, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
The company last year agreed to plead guilty to illegally shipping hazardous waste from an East Providence site to a trucking depot in Warwick.
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Bradford Dean, Berkeley Transportation’s president, appeared Thursday before U.S. District Court Judge Ernest C. Torres, in Providence, to plead guilty to two counts of knowingly transporting hazardous waste.
Prosecutors say that on Sept. 10 and 13, Berkeley Transportation knowingly transported hazardous waste from 155 Amaral St., East Providence, to a C-Line Transportation depot at 340 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, a site that is not legally permitted to receive or store hazardous waste.
The two-count “information” filed Dec. 28 by the U.S. attorney’s office states that Amaral Street Associates had recently sold the East Providence property, and had hired Berkeley to truck away waste it had stored there; it identifies Bradford Dean as both the president of Berkeley Transportation and a partner and officer of Amaral Street Associates.
As a condition of the company’s Dec. 28 plea agreement, Berkeley Transportation agreed to pay $35,000 to the DEM’s Environmental Response Fund. Prosecutors also will ask the court to impose a fine of $80,000, and to order the company to establish an environmental compliance program.
Illegally transporting hazardous waste carries penalties of up to five years imprisonment and a fine of up to $50,000 per incident, or twice the amount of gain or loss.
Additional information can be found in the PBN’s Dec. 29 report, “Trucking firm facing hazardous waste charges.”
