Louis Guirola Jr., U.S. district judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, ordered Robert J. Lucas Jr. to spend nine years in prison followed by three years’ supervised release. His daughter, Robbie Lucas, will spend 87 months in prison followed by three years’ supervised release, and a third business partner, M.E. Thompson Jr., also will serve 87 months in prison. All three will have to pay $15,000 in restitution.

The defendants, along with their two corporations, Big Hill Acres Inc. and Consolidated Investments Inc., were convicted this year of filling hundreds of acres of wetlands during the development of a 2,600-acre subdivision in Vancleave, Miss. They sold hundreds of houses on the site despite warnings from health officials that they were installing septic systems in saturated soil that would contaminate the property.

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