Clermont County Mega-Dumper Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

The man who raised a big stink in Clermont County is going to jail.

Donald W. Combs, who had been charged with creating landfills in Clermont County where landfills shouldn't have existed, was sentenced to four years in prison by the Clermont County Common Pleas Court, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in an emailed release Tuesday.

In April, Combs pleaded guilty to three counts of illegal open dumping of solid waste, two counts of illegal operation of a solid waste facility without a license, two counts of violating Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) director of environmental protection orders and one count of illegal open burning of solid wastes. All counts are felonies, and Ohio law prohibits open burning and dumping.

"Your home might be your castle, but your yard is not your landfill,” Yost said.

The sentencing is part of an ongoing saga for Combs, who lives in Milford. As CityBeat previously reported, Combs and his wife Anita were ordered to pay $1.5 million in civil penalties after a Clermont County Common Pleas Court judge ruled that they had been illegally dumping significant amounts of solid waste near their home while doing business as Ace Dumpsters and Combs Trucking and Land Improvements.

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(Cincinnati Citybeat)