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“there are other products used for that.”

An article by Monica Richardson in the March 31 issue of the Culpeper Star-Exponent states that on March 30 John E. “Monk” Reynolds, who owns Commonwealth Park, entered a guilty plea in Culpeper County to a felony charge of “transporting hazardous materials” and received five years unsupervised probation and a $10,000 fine to be paid to the Treasurer of Virginia and used for the local Virginia Environmental Emergency Response Fund. He has one year to pay the fine, according to the newspaper report.

The paper further reports that the guilty plea was entered as part of a plea agreement worked out between Culpeper Commonwealth’s Attorney Gary Close and Mr. Reynolds’s defense attorney Thomas Parcell. Mr. Reynolds was charged in July 1992.

The article stated that Mr. Reynolds denied committing any crime but said he had decided to plead guilty to avoid the heavier sentence and fine that could have been imposed if he were tried and found guilty. Mr. Reynolds claimed he had given a quantity of malathion to two men who said they would take it to a farmer who could use the chemical.

A Feb. 26, 1992, article by Tom Huestis in the Culpeper Star-Exponent states that on Feb. 25, 1992, 12 barrels marked “Malathion/Salvage Drum” were found just off Route 722 north of Mitchell’s in Culpeper County, not far from Commonwealth Park. The March 1993 article stated that the barrels also had the letters “CP” stenciled on them.

The February 1992 article said that investigators were seeking the barrels’ owner.

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