Los Angeles Area Sheriff Arrests Waste Management Executive!
In the latest event in the controversial Rail-Cycle Waste Management plan, the San Bernardino County (California) Sheriff arrested Waste Management Rail-Cycle president Franklin Glen Odell on March 5, 1997. Odell, 55, was booked and jailed on charges of suspicion of criminal conspiracy, wiretapping and theft of computer data. In addition the sheriff arrested Waste Management consultant, Joseph Ernest Lauricella (alias Tony Bergschneider, Tony Berg, and Tony Mar). Lauricella was already a wanted fugitive in Santa Clara County for trafficking narcotics, grand theft and parole violation. Waste Management certainly keeps company with interesting characters! (For his deposition, click Toxic Alert, then Solid Waste and Charges of Dirty Tricks).
The long time battle against Waste Management and Santa Fe has been led by the California Communities Against Toxics, the Clean Desert Water Coalition and the Cadiz Land Co. Opponents of this plan to move solid waste by train to the Mohave Desert was defeated by the San Bernardino County voters in Spring 1996. But Waste Management has determined by hook or crook to make the project succeed. For information on the citizen campaign from the California Communities Against Toxics write them at 3813 50th Street West, Rosamond, CA 93560 (Phone 805-256-0968) For background on the 1996 election click the Clean Desert Water Coalition or write San Bernardino County Taxpayers Assn and Cadiz Land Company at 300-A8 South Sycamore Avenue, Rialto, CA 92376. For more information on the arrest click sherrif for the sheriff's updated press release.
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