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Alabama sewage plant was doubling as a wine making operation
It’s all about the soil.
A supervisor at Alabama’s Rainsville Wastewater Treatment Plant was suspended after using the facility as a wine-making operation, Huntsville, Ala., news station WAFF reports.
Acting on a tip that alcohol was being made at the plant, deputies visited the plant Thursday. An employee who has been with the treatment facility for 15 years was reportedly placed on paid leave after “a large amount of illegal wine” and tools used to make vino were found on premise. An investigation is ongoing.
Rainsville had been a dry town prior to an August vote to make booze legal in the nearly 5,000-person northeast Alabama town after a 2014 effort came up short. Investigators believe the wine-making operation had been functioning for quite a while.
UPDATE: Rainsville Wastewater Treatment Plant Supervisor arrested in connection to illegal wine operation
Illegal wine operation busted in DeKalb County By Anna Mahan and Stefante Randall | December 17, 2020 at 7:16 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 5:06 PM
RAINSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) -
illegal wine operation that was set up in the Waste Water Treatment Plant in Rainsville.
Allen Maurice Stiefel, 62 of Fyffe, was charged with unlawful possession of an illegally manufactured alcoholic beverage, a misdemeanor and use of official position for personnel gain, which is a class B felony. Allen Maurice Stiefel (Source: DeKalb County Sheriff s Office)
Stiefel was the supervisor of the plant and was suspended earlier this morning without pay.