Trial date pending for former Recology employees

Judge schedules new proceedings for Marion T. Allen, 58, of Fairfield, and Terri R. Wilson, 58, of Esparto

Felony legal proceedings have been reshuffled for two former Recology employees charged with taking cash bribes from garbage haulers while working at the waste disposal firm’s Vacaville landfill in 2015.

Marion Taylor Allen, 58, of Fairfield, and Terri Rosalind Wilson, 58, of Esparto, were scheduled to appear Thursday in Solano County Superior

Court for a trial management conference and also on Oct. 6 for a jury trial.

However, court records indicate Judge Jeffrey C. Kauffman ordered them to return at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 6 for a readiness conference and trial setting in Department 1 in the Justice Center in Fairfield.

Allen and Wilson were indicted on June 21, 2018, by a specially convened Solano County Grand Jury on one count of felony conspiracy to commit a crime and 38 felony counts of grand theft stemming from activities while working at the San Francisco-based company’s Hay Road landfill in rural Vacaville.

Wilson is being represented by Vallejo criminal defense lawyer Daniel J. Russo and Allen by the Solano County Public Defender.

According to court records, from Nov. 14 to Dec. 30, 2015, the two women allegedly accepted cash bribes from waste haulers in exchange for allowing trucks to bypass Recology’s inbound truck scales and point-of-sale system at the landfill.

Charges were brought by the Solano County District Attorney after an internal forensic audit by Recology revealed that the alleged bypasses were occurring when Allen and Wilson were working as weighmasters in the inbound scale house.

Police investigators obtained search warrants to gain access to their residences, where they recovered $93,000 in cash from Allen’s home and nearly $155,000 from Wilson’s.

They were arraigned on the indictment on June 27.

Allen posted $195,000 bail and Wilson was granted supervised release through pretrial services.