STOVER, MO. -- A mid-Missouri mayor and city official were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday for violating the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Stover Public Works Superintendent Richard R. Sparks, 53, and Mayor Scott Allen Beckman, 40, were charged in a 30 count indictment for falsifying information related to water sample records.
Sparks allegedly submitted records to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that contained false sampling location information between Sept. 19, 2006 to Dec. 18, 2007.
The indictment also charges Sparks with making a false statement related to bacteriological water analysis samples that he submitted to the state. The samples were contaminated with chlorine bleach to prevent an accurate laboratory analysis of the samples.
Beckman is charged allegedly knew about Sparks’ alleged criminal activity, but concealed it from an Environmental Protection Agency agent, by denying any knowledge of it.
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