3 seek redemption in 178-ton, $7.6 million recycling fraud trial in Riverside County

3 seek redemption in 178-ton, $7.6 million recycling fraud trial in Riverside County

Over five months in 2023, state Department of Justice Special Agent Mark Wood said, he and other agents watched as 50-year-old Jurupa Valley resident Jose Raul Chica and 34-year-old Colton resident Jose Antonio Interiano Martinez steered truckload after truckload of contraband — 129 trips in all — to a business in Ontario. Inside the box trucks, Wood said, were not illegal drugs whose seizures are celebrated by police departments or the kind of …