Atlantic Drain allegedly had employees selling drugs on property

BOSTON — Investigators believe workers at the company involved in a deadly trench collapse were selling drugs on the property.

Five weeks before Kevin Mattocks and Robert Higgins were killed when a trench collapsed and flooded in the South End, police said they busted 45-year-old Dominick Revell driving an Atlantic Drain Services dump truck to buy crack cocaine.

Investigators had been keeping an eye on Atlantic Drain for some time. According to court documents, police said “numerous employees of Atlantic Drain Service are chronic drug users as [investigators] have witnessed two different employees purchase illegal narcotics.”

Police said Revell “was selling and using illegal narcotics out of the Atlantic Drain yard and Atlantic Drain dump truck.”

According to the incident report, Revell's passenger told officers, "he purchased the crack cocaine earlier in the day from someone in the Atlantic Drain yard."

Atlantic Drain would not speak with FOX25 Friday and when we called the company’s lawyer, the attorney said they had no comment about these accusations, but the owner of Atlantic Drain may release some kind of statement down the road.

Atlantic Drain has come under fire since the Oct. 21 accident that killed Mattock and Higgins. FOX25 previously found dozens of OSHA violations and tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid fines.

Federal investigators with OSHA continue to investigate that deadly incident in the South End two weeks ago. So far, nobody has been charged in that case.

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