Two Lyon County men have been sentenced to a year of probation and ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution after causing an oil spill in the Yellow Medicine River in 2019.
2 Lyon County men plead guilty after causing 3,900 gallons of oil to spill into river
The U.S. Attorney s Office says they shot a rifle at the pipeline, causing it to spill into a creek that connects to the Yellow Medicine River.
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Two Minnesota men have pleaded guilty to shooting an AR-15 rifle at a diesel oil pipeline, causing it to spill 3,900 gallons of oil into the Yellow Medicine River.
Eric Jay Weckworth-Pineda, 25, of Cottonwood, and Tanner John Sik, 21, of Ivanhoe, were convicted this week of one count each of negligent discharge of a pollutant in connection to the April 24, 2019, incident, the U.S. Attorney s Office says.