Justo and Juan González Osorio, two 43-year-old Cuban twin brothers, were arrested last Thursday for illegally dumping toxic waste in Miami.
The González Osorio brothers dumped toxic substances April 6 in the Redlands, a rural area of unincorporated Miami-Dade County, news station AmericaTeVe Miami reported.
The spilled chemicals contained arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, mercury and zinc, all of which heavily contaminated the soil in the area.
Last February, a man of Cuban origin was arrested Dump contaminated waste near a lake in southwest Miami-Dade County and this was the second time in seven months.
The citizen, identified as Julio Barreto, 51, was confronted by a witness – also believed to be of Cuban origin – who recorded him throwing the trash.
In the video, which went viral on social networks, the question can be heard: “You know this is illegal, right?”; Barreto replied, “Are you in the same ‘elite’ as me and are you going to kick me out?”
In November last year, a man of Cuban descent who works as a gardener was arrested in Miami-Dade Accused of scattering rubbish in an unauthorized location.
Authorities had been monitoring the property for several months where the suspect, identified as Ovany Díaz, was dumping garbage without the required permit.
Díaz dumped the garbage he generated from his work on his own property.