Teens Plead in Attack on Migrant Workers
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Five of eight teenagers accused in an alleged hate-crime attack on five elderly Latino migrant workers pleaded no contest Tuesday and face maximum sentences of 12 to 15 years in state prison. Three others pleaded not guilty.
The workers were beaten with pipes and shot with pellet guns in their makeshift camp east of Del Mar on July 5, 2000, by teenagers who yelled ethnic slurs. The teens were allegedly seen in a clubhouse that had racist and Nazi literature and anti-Latino graffiti.
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