{"id":369572,"date":"2026-08-12T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369572\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:56:47","slug":"man-arrested-after-dozens-of-drums-of-industrial-cleaner-dumped-into-storm-drain-bso-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369572\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after dozens of drums of industrial cleaner dumped into storm drain, BSO says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is facing charges after authorities said dozens of 50-gallon drums containing industrial car cleaner were dumped into a storm drain at an Oakland Park business.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalo Javier Paul, 42, was arrested Wednesday on a charge of littering over 500 pounds, Broward jail records showed.<\/p>\n<p>According to an arrest report, a deputy responded to the business in the 3700 block of Northeast 3rd Avenue for a call regarding a man dumping hazardous material down the storm drain.<\/p>\n<p>An Oakland Park Fire captain told the deputy he saw an employee standing next to 38 50-gallon drums behind the business near the storm drain, with several drums tipped over and spilling an unknown fluid into the drain while others were empty, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The captain identified the content of the drums as automobile care products including tire\/wheel cleaner, glass cleaner and waterless hyper concentrated car wash.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined Paul had instructed the employee to &#8220;discharge over thirty-eight drums of industrial car care cleaner into the storm drain,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was booked into jail. Attorney information wasn&#8217;t available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing charges after authorities said dozens of 50-gallon drums containing industrial car cleaner were dumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,250,8230],"class_list":["post-369572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-oakland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369572","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=369572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}