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September 10, 2012
Md. Dry Cleaner Gets Suspended Sentence for Illegal Waste Disposal

BALTIMORE — Drums containing dry cleaning solvent waste illegally dumped along roadside

BALTIMORE — Discount Dry Cleaners LLC, Laurel, Md., and its owner, Mehret Sium, 58, have been convicted of improperly disposing of hazardous waste in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County, reports state Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler.

Sium, on behalf of her business, pleaded guilty to illegal disposal of hazardous materials. She personally pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to comply with hazardous waste transportation requirements.

The convictions stem from a March 9 incident when the Maryland Department of the Environment Hazardous Response Team was contacted regarding a suspected hazardous drum dumping on Dicus Mill Road near Millersville.

Investigators from the Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Unit found 18 drums varying in size from 5 to 35 gallons that contained hazardous waste from dry cleaning solvent. Numerous containers had no lids, and none was properly packaged, labeled or marked pursuant to Department of Transportation regulations. The drums were traced back to Discount Dry Cleaners.

January 21, 2008
Drycleaner’s Killer Sentenced to Life

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Denworth Davidson, the triggerman convicted in the murder of Red Cap Valet operator Bruce Levy, was sentenced to life without parole last week in a Queens court.

“A lot of people’s lives were destroyed here,” Queens Supreme Court Justice Robert Hanophy told Davidson in issuing the maximum sentence.

November 12, 2007
Hawaiian Punished for Compliance Violations

HONOLULU, Hawaii — The former owner of a downtown Honolulu drycleaning plant was sentenced to 15 years probation for the improper use and disposal of perchloroethylene last week.

Xuan-Mai Pavey, the owner of Fantastique Inc. from 2000 to 2005, pleaded no contest to charges of unlawful disposal and abandonment of hazardous wastes in July, as well as an air-pollution violation.

October 31, 2007
Red Cap Gunman Convicted

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The shooter in an attempted robbery that left Red Cap Valet operator Bruce Levy dead three years ago was convicted of first-degree murder in a Queens court on Saturday. Denworth Davidson, 24, now faces life in prison.

On Oct. 7, 2004, Levy was walking into his business when Davidson pulled a gun and attempted to snatch a banker’s bag holding about $17,000 in payroll cash. Levy struggled with the gunman, was shot in the arm, fell to the ground and suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the throat.

October 3, 2007
Drycleaners' Killer to Challenge Lethal Injection

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two inmates on Kentucky’s death row — one convicted of the slayings of two drycleaners in 1990 — will soon test the constitutionality of execution by lethal injection before the Supreme Court. The state’s lethal-injection procedures amount to cruel and unusual punishment, according to the inmates.