MPCA records show Becker County Board candidate was ticketed for illegal dumping and arson

Reached Wednesday, he refused to answer a questionnaire that allowed him to answer court questions.

According to Becker County District Court records:

According to court records, Mackner and another guy allegedly filled a bottle of caramel schnapps with windshield washer fluid, which contains methanolic alcohol, and passed it to other people at a partyArray, who drank a glass, believing it to be schnapps.

Seven other people were treated at Dakota Hospital in Fargo or St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit Lakes. All tested positive for drinking methanolic alcohol, according to the offender’s complaint.

On September 14, 1993, Mackner sentenced through U. S. District Judge Homer Saetre to one year in prison, with a suspended sentence of 350 days and two years in prison and credits for one day served. He fined $1,000 plus $200 in court costs and ordered him to pay $2,497. in joint and several restitution. It paid a total of $3,809 in 1993 and 1994. This court account was published in the Detroit Lakes newspaper at the time.

Any trailer fitted with brakes also has a backup brake system, which is designed to activate the trailer’s electric brakes if the trailer is somehow disconnected from the trailer. Safety brake assist to prevent the trailer from escaping safely.

During two inspections of Mackner assets near Highway 34 in early June 2016, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency workforce documented approximately 1,000 cubic meters of demolition debris, combined forged municipal waste (waste ) and ash disposed of at the site, as well as an unknown amount of waste that had been deliberately burned there, under the MPCA Administrative Sanction Order.

MPCA also documented a domain that Mackner said was used to classify counterfeit teas. His company “did not obtain a permit to process, store, move and dispose of counterfeit tea, and is prohibited from burning rubber, plastics, chemically treated fabrics or other fabrics that generate excessive or harmful smoke,” the MPCA said in its administrative order of sanction.

In addition, the MPCA said, it is not a licensed facility for the control of counterfeit waste and Mackner Excavating did not send the counterfeit waste to a facility authorized to accept it, such as the Becker County Transfer Station.

In addition to paying the fine, Mackner Excavating ordered to immediately prevent the burning of counterfeit tea and its transportation to unauthorized sites for any reason.

The company ordered all fake tea and ashes removed from the site and properly disposed of within 30 days, saving receipts and taking photographs to present to the MPCA as proof of compliance.

Given the seriousness of the violations, the MPCA Commissioner decided that the $9,000 fine was “unforgivable” and deserved to be paid.

Mackner Excavating, Inc. no requested review of the administrative penalty order nor did it pay the fine within 30 days, so the company ended up paying a total of $9,219. 95, plus interest, after agreeing (in a December 12, 2017 confession from the MPCA). judgment) to make six equivalent monthly installments from January 1, 2018 to June 1, 2018.

Mackner is running for the District 3 commissioner seat vacated by veteran commissioner John Okeson, who will retire from the county board after this year.

The other candidates in the poll were Phil Hansen and Hank Ludtke, Ludtke did not crusade and supported Hansen.

(Mackner will not be with Terry E. Mackner, a professional musician from Detroit Lakes associated with the Fargo-based country rock band Silverado. )

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