Man pleads guilty to tampering with drinking water supply in Massachusetts town By Neal Riley
March 27, 2025 / 9:48 AM EDT /
WBZ/CBS Boston A former worker at the Stoughton Water Department has pleaded guilty to tampering with the town's drinking water supply, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts said.
Robert Bullock Sr., a 60-year-old from Brockton, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a water system.
"On the evening of Nov. 29, 2022, Bullock went into one of the Water Department's pumping stations and turned off the pump that introduces chlorine into drinking water," U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley's office said in a statement. "As a result, insufficiently disinfected water was introduced into the drinking water system." ...
Calter said police notified the FBI of the incident, "due to the potential domestic terrorism implications." But he said the water supply was never at risk because of the town quickly noticed that the pump had been turned off, and restarted it before chlorine levels got too low. ...
Nothing about the guy's motive.
