The Region - News from Oct. 30, 1986
One of four men charged with arranging for toxic wastes from Southern California firms to be dumped illegally near a Mexican border town pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in U.S. District Court in San Diego. Rogelio Marin Sagrista, 27, admitted, among other things, that he had bribed Mexican customs officials to allow wastes into Mexico and had supplied truckers with fictitious documents suggesting that the shipments were legal, prosecutors said. The case involves the discovery in January of an illegal dump near Tecate, Mexico.
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