A former Stoughton Water Department employee plead guilty in federal court Wednesday to tampering with the town's drinking water supply in 2022.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts said 60-year-old Brockton resident Robert Bullock Sr. was working for Stoughton's water department when he went into a pumping station on the evening of Nov. 29, 2022, and turned off the pump that introduces chlorine into drinking water.
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As a result, the feds said, "insufficiently disinfected water" was introduced into the drinking water system that serves the town.
Bullock was indicted by a grand jury last March.
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He pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of tampering with a water system, and will be sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper on June 25.
U.S. Attorney Leah Foley's office said 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.
