On July 12, 2012, William Avery and Steve Avery—father and son officials in the former S.E.A. Solutions ship-scrapping company in Chesapeake—were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Norfolk for petroleum pollution of the Elizabeth River during a cargo-ship scrapping operation in 2010. Steven A. Avery was sentenced to one year in prison, and William J. Avery was sentenced to nine months of house arrest and five years’ probation; both were fined $25,000 and they are responsible to repay $66,000 that the federal government spent to remove oil spilled in the 2010 operation. Beach father, son sentenced in river-pollution case, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 7/13/12
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