Trial date rescheduled in Recology bribery case

Legal proceedings were continued and rescheduled earlier this month for two Recology employees charged with taking cash bribes from garbage haulers while working at the waste disposal firm’s Vacaville landfill.

Marion Taylor Allen, 58, of Fairfield, and Terri Rosalind Wilson, 57, of Esparto, appeared in Department 1 on Jan. 10 for a readiness conference, but Judge Jeffrey C. Kauffman delayed it until 8:30 p.m. Feb. 19 and rescheduled their trial for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 6. in the Justice Center in Fairfield.

They were indicted in 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 attorney 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 occurred when Allen and Wilson worked 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 in cash 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.