FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – A South Carolina man has been ordered to pay over $270,000 after a crash on the West Virginia Turnpike polluted a creek in August of 2022.
Dennis West, 58, of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, was ordered to pay $266,444.86 in restitution on Wednesday for negligent discharge of pollutants into United States waters, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
West was previously sentenced to three years of federal probation and fined $5,000…