Pair Get Prison Terms in Bay Dumping
The co-owners of a ship repair company who admitted illegal dumping into San Francisco Bay were sentenced to federal prison Tuesday.
Donald Manning, 52, of Vallejo, president of Donco Industries Inc., was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5,000 by U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong. Charles E. James, 51, of Petaluma, the company’s secretary and chief financial officer, was sentenced to six months and fined $2,000. Donco, now in bankruptcy, was fined an additional $10,000.
Manning pleaded guilty earlier to conspiring to dredge railway tracks and a channel leading to Donco’s San Francisco boat repair facility and deposit the dredged material into the bay off Hunter’s Point without a federal permit. The polluted mud was dumped between June and October, 1990, federal authorities said.
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