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07/24/2023
Former Fairfield Town Official Sentenced For Polluting Public Property
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Rocky Hill, CT) – Chief State’s Attorney Patrick J. Griffin today announced that the Honorable Tracy Lee Dayton sentenced Scott Bartlett, age 61, of Fairfield, to four years in prison, suspended after 18 months served, and three years of probation for offenses involving the pollution of public property located in the town of Fairfield. Judge Dayton also ordered Bartlett to pay restitution for costs the town of Fairfield incurred for the remediation of contaminated sites associated with the charges.
A jury in Superior Court in Bridgeport on May 5, 2023 convicted Bartlett of eight felony offenses including: three counts of Transporting Solid Waste to an Unpermitted Facility, three counts of Receiving Solid Waste at an Unpermitted Facility, Disposing of Solid Waste Without a Permit and Operating a Solid Waste Facility Without a Permit.
According to evidence at trial, Bartlett, the town of Fairfield’s former Public Works Superintendent, was involved in the dumping of contaminated or hazardous materials at the property from May 2018 until June 2018. The court subsequently granted the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal on two counts of the Information. Bartlett was sentenced today on the remaining counts.
The trial was the result of a lengthy investigation by the Fairfield Police Department and the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney. The investigation uncovered a years-long illegal dumping operation on town-owned property on Richard White Way.
The case was prosecuted by Senior Assistant State’s Attorneys Tamberlyn Chapman and Melissa L. Streeto of the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney and former Supervisory Assistant State’s Attorney C. Robert Satti Jr. of the Fairfield State’s Attorney’s Office, with the assistance of Inspector David Posadas of the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney, and the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Bartlett and five other defendants are awaiting trial on additional environmental and corruption charges in Bridgeport Superior Court, for which they are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law.