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Press Release
Dateline: March 18, 2003
For immediate Release
Man fined $30,000 for Illegal Sand Mining
Horace Knight of a Sea View Gardens address in Kingston was fined thirty-thousand Dollars ($30,000) for possession of illegally
quarried sand when he appeared in the St. Catherine Resident Magistrate (RM)
Court on March 12.
Following the seizure of a truck in the Lakes Pen Area of
St. Catherine in February this year, Knight was arrested by Environmental
Wardens of NEPA’s Environmental Warden Service and
the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) for breaches committed under
the Quarries Control Act.
The Act provides for the seizure and forfeiture of any vehicle,
equipment or material used in any illegal operation. In addition to the fine
imposed by the Court, Knight also had to pay Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000)
for wrecker fee.
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