{"id":330617,"date":"2025-10-25T03:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330617\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T03:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:10:14","slug":"after-100-gallons-of-coconut-lotion-spilled-in-bayou-a-houston-cosmetics-company-now-faces-corporate-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/330617\/","title":{"rendered":"After 100 gallons of coconut lotion spilled in bayou, a Houston cosmetics company now faces corporate felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 About 100 gallons of coconut lotion \u2014 roughly 12,000 12 oz. bottles worth \u2014 were dumped into the bayou system, police say, in what they are calling a criminal act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe don\u2019t need that in our water. We like to take care of our water and our neighborhood,\u201d said local resident Jeff Blackwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Blackwell and fellow retiree Jim Haney became whistleblowers after capturing video evidence of the pollution in the Woodland Trails West subdivision. They\u2019re careful documentation helped police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">In May, the water, on its way to White Oak Bayou, was so polluted it appeared frozen in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cWe had to decide where it was coming from,\u201d Blackwell said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 kDvXdO font_openSans articleList\">\n<li class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__StackBase-sc-1fnzlkn-7 ecGWWE iQviKm\"\/><\/ul>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">With the help of one of the largest environmental policing units in Texas, they did just that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Constable Alan Rosen\u2019s environmental unit investigated Immacule Lab Corporation, a private label cosmetics manufacturer located on Fairbanks North Houston near Highway 290.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The manufacturing facility located just upstream of Jim and Jeff and hundreds of their neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Authorities say the company dumped the lotion rather than properly disposing of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Attempts to get a comment from Immacule Lab were unsuccessful, but the company posted an apology on its website, expressing regret for the accidental spill on April 7, 2025. The company said it has taken corrective actions, including cleaning the affected area and replanting grass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Police say the dumping was intentional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Both Immacule Lab and its 51-year-old principal owner currently face state jail felony charges. A conviction could result in up to two years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON \u2013 About 100 gallons of coconut lotion \u2014 roughly 12,000 12 oz. bottles worth \u2014 were dumped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":330618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[153343,164116,4345,7439,358,3187,36214],"class_list":{"0":"post-330617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bayou","9":"tag-coconut-lotion","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-spill","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-water-pollution"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115432615132471962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}