A former Stoughton Water Department employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to tampering with the Stoughton drinking water supply.
Robert J. Bullock, Sr., 60, of Brockton, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a water system.
U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper scheduled sentencing for June 25, 2025. Bullock was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 5, 2024, Bullock.
According to the charging documents, Bullock is a former employee of the Water Department in Stoughton.
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. As a result, insufficiently disinfected water was introduced into the drinking water system.
The charge of tampering with a water system provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case.
