Dive summary:

• A man in Baltimore has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for illegally dumping hazardous waste in an empty city lot.
• Richard Kevin Fox Jr. admitted to accepting money from a contractor to dispose of two 55-gallon drums of hazardous waste.
• The discarded waste was wastewater from a brick-washing job.

From the article:

Richard Kevin Fox Jr., 40, admitted that he accepted money from a contractor to dispose of two 55-gallon drums filled with wastewater from a brick-washing job, the report said. He also admitted to leaving the two drums in an empty city lot.

Baltimore City Circuit Judge Emmanuel Brown sentenced Fox to 18 months in jail and two years supervised probation, according to the report. ...