Business Owner Guilty For Shipping Hazardous Material

We’ve written about enforcement proceedings regarding non-complaint shipments of hazardous materials by air. As a case in point, on May 1, 2008, Mark Henry pled guilty to a one–count indictment in U.S. District Court, Brooklyn, New York, to illegally shipping hazardous materials on an aircraft and admitted that he had violated DOT hazardous materials transportation regulations when he offered to ship undeclared hazardous materials aboard the aircraft. Between June 2006 and March 2007, Mr. Henry, owner of two shipping companies, offered several shipments for international air transport that contained undeclared, hazardous materials. Mr. Henry falsified several FedEx Air Waybills by indicating the shipments did not contain hazardous materials. He also failed to produce required shipper certifications and properly label outer packages. Sentencing is scheduled for September 4, 2008. Shipping undeclared hazardous materials is dangerous to all of us and now, carries significant penalties, including prison.