{"id":364511,"date":"2026-08-06T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:48:08","slug":"oakland-park-businessman-jailed-for-having-worker-dump-38-drums-of-chemicals-down-drain-bso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/364511\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Park businessman jailed for having worker dump 38 drums of chemicals down drain: BSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AUWEQX6ZVFACBN5TD7564JSMXY.jpg\"  width=\"720\" height=\"405\"\/>Gonzalo Paul (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla. \u2014 A Broward business owner is facing a felony littering charge for having one of his workers dump more than three dozen 50-gallon drums of chemicals down a storm drain on Wednesday, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/06\/bso-arrestan-a-empresario-de-oakland-park-por-ordenar-a-empleado-verter-38-tambores-de-quimicos-por-un-desague\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/06\/bso-arrestan-a-empresario-de-oakland-park-por-ordenar-a-empleado-verter-38-tambores-de-quimicos-por-un-desague\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office, the dirty deed happened at International Parts Service, located at 3770 NE Third Ave. in Oakland Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A BSO arrest report states that an Oakland Park Fire Rescue captain saw the employee dumping the car care chemicals and got deputies involved, who later determined that Gonzalo Javier Paul put the employee up to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">State <a href=\"https:\/\/search.sunbiz.org\/Inquiry\/CorporationSearch\/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=OfficerRegisteredAgentName&amp;directionType=Initial&amp;searchNameOrder=PAULGONZALOJ%20L210002098451&amp;aggregateId=flal-l21000209845-e86225cd-1c88-4dfb-bd36-8da95bf2ad76&amp;searchTerm=Paul%20Gonzalo&amp;listNameOrder=PAULGONZALOJ%20L210002098451\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/search.sunbiz.org\/Inquiry\/CorporationSearch\/SearchResultDetail?inquirytype=OfficerRegisteredAgentName&amp;directionType=Initial&amp;searchNameOrder=PAULGONZALOJ%20L210002098451&amp;aggregateId=flal-l21000209845-e86225cd-1c88-4dfb-bd36-8da95bf2ad76&amp;searchTerm=Paul%20Gonzalo&amp;listNameOrder=PAULGONZALOJ%20L210002098451\">business records<\/a> show that Paul, 42, of Pompano Beach, is International Parts Service\u2019s registered agent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said they counted 38 drums in total near the rear of the business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Paul was taken to the BSO Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, where he was being held on a $2,500 bond as of Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM Updated:\u00a0August 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandGonzalo Paul (BSO) OAKLAND PARK, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-364511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}