Dad gets prison for oil tank spill in Pa. forest
BRADFORD, Pa. (AP) — A northwestern Pennsylvania man will spend two to 10 years in state prison for conspiring with his son to cause an oil spill in the Allegheny National Forest because he was upset with his former employer.
Forty-three-year-old Andrew Horton, of Bradford, was sentenced Wednesday. He had pleaded guilty in April to charges that he dropped off his son, 22-year-old Christopher Horton, to vandalize the company's oil storage tanks in August.
McKean County prosecutors say Horton's son opened tank valves spilling 46,000 gallons of oil, fouling a nearby stream and killing fish and other wildlife.
Christopher Horton is serving three to six years in prison for state and federal convictions in the spill.
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Information from: The Bradford Era, http://www.bradfordera.
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