7
Wyatt Travnichek
Indictment/Indicted on a federal charge accusing Travnichek of alleged tampering with a public water system and one count of alleged reckless damage to a protected computer during unauthorized access
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Russell McKeehan, Sr.
Sentencing/Sentenced to four years of probation for alleged storage of hazardous waste without a permit (including a six-month term of home confinement)
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Aaron Rochester
Plea Agreement/Pleaded guilty to one count of alleged unlawful storage of hazardous waste and one count of transportation of hazardous waste
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Beatriz Santillan
Sentencing/Sentenced to 70 days in prison and ordered to pay $20,079 restitution for allegedly smuggling illegal pesticides
“Not only did this distillery allegedly dump tens of thousands of gallons of industrial waste into a stream, [its owner] also allegedly lied about it to investigators, and that will
Siddharth Dilawri, the owner of Filibuster Distillery LLC, was listed as a “fugitive” by online court records, and a writ has been issued for his arrest.
Distillery hit with criminal charges over waste dumping 18th January, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers
Virginia-based Filibuster Distillery has been charged with 115 counts of violating environmental state laws, including the alleged dumping of more than 40,000 gallons of industrial waste into a river.
A stream in Virginia’s Shenandoah County has been allegedly filled with industrial waste from a distillery
Filibuster Distillery has been indicted with 115 counts after a two-year investigation by Shenandoah County’s fire marshal Dave Ferguson and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
The charges were given to Filibuster Distillery, Filibuster Barrels, and Filibuster founder Sid Dilawri, by a grand jury and are the first criminal indictments related to environmental violations brought by the state’s office of the attorney general and the DEQ.