Michael Wayne Higgins faces two felony counts—one count of unlawful discharge and one count of criminal damage.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says in a release that Higgins was working as a tanker truck driver last year for Emergency Pumping & Plumbing. On April 17, 2016, the indictment states, Higgins allegedly dumped thousands of gallons of sewage into a storm drainage system at the Phoenix West Campus of the Austin School for Exceptional Children.
The storm drainage system flowed from the school’s parking lot into a grassy area that the school uses as a playground. The school spent nearly $4,000 to clean up the sewage, the attorney general's office says.
Mike Kennedy has been writing about education for American School & University since 1999. He also has reported on schools and other topics for The Chicago Tribune, The Kansas City Star, The Kansas City Times and City News Bureau of Chicago. He is a graduate of Michigan State University.
