# BRYNER, JOHN JR.
> **Judicial** · FY1984 · — · Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `9656`
- **Case Number:** 03-1984-0027
- **Type:** Judicial
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Voluntarily Dismissed After Filing
- **Penalty assessed:** —
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- JOHN BRYNER JR. (complaint)
## Summary

=> NITROGLYCERIN HAD BEEN MANUFACTURED AT THE OLD       AMERICAN GLYCERIN PLANT, BUT MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS HAD    CEASED IN OR ABOUT 1963. HOWEVER, VARIOUS DRUMS, CANS &      EQUIPMENT REMAINED ON THE SITE IN DETERIORATING CONDITION.   THESE CONTAINED VARYING AMOUNTS OF NITRIC ACID,NITROGLYCERIN ORTHONITROTOLUENE & DINITROTOLUENE, ALL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES      => IN AUGUST OF 1984 A DRUM CONTAINING NITRIC ACID      BURST AT THE SITE, & EPA WAS NOTIFIED. THE DEFENDANT, JOHN   BRYNER JR WAS ASKED BY EPA TO DO A CLEANUP BUT DECLINED.     HOWEVER EPA WAS GIVEN ORAL PERMISSION TO ENTER ON THE SITE   AND PERFORM REMOVAL ACTIONS.                                      => THE CLEAN-UP PROGRESSED WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT INCIDENT UNTIL NOV 28, 1984 WHEN JOHN BRYNER JR. CAME TO THE SITE     WITH A LOADED RIFLE & STATED THAT HE WAS GOING TO SHOOT SOME CANS IN A LAGOON ON THE SITE TO PROVE THAT THEY DID NOT      CONTAIN NITROGLYCERIN. THE EPA OSC WAS ABLE TO DISSUADE      MR. BRYNER.                                                  =>                                                                => HOWEVER, ON SAT DEC 1, 1984, MR BRYNER TOLD A MEMBER OF THE COAST GUARD, WHO WAS PART OF THE CLEAN-UP TEAM, THAT  IF THE TEAM WAS NOT OFF THE SITE BY DEC 5, 1984 THEN MR      BRYNER & A FRIEND WOULD START SHOOTING PEOPLE. ON DEC 3,1984 MR BRYNER RETURNED TO THE SITE & REPEATED HIS THREAT. MR     BRYNER ALSO SAID THAT HE WAS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS THREATS.           => THE ON SITE COORDINATOR (OSC) TOO

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