BOSTON, Mass. — A former employee of the Stoughton Water Department was sentenced Thursday in federal court for tampering with the town’s drinking water supply by disabling its chlorination system, federal prosecutors announced.
Robert J. Bullock Sr., 60, of Brockton, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper to time served — approximately one day — followed by three years of supervised release. Bullock had pleaded guilty in March to one count of tampering with a public water system.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office had recommended a sentence of one year and one day in prison…