The Region : 2nd Man Pleads Guilty in Weapons Case

A retired Costa Mesa defense subcontractor became the second of three defendants to plead guilty to participating in a scheme to export models and components for the cluster bomb weapon to Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Anthony George Cenci, 62, is a former subcontractor for Aerojet Ordnance Co. of Downey, which has the Air Force contract for the Combined Effects Munitions weapon. He admitted to conspiring with two other co-defendants to take key parts and blueprints for the cluster bomb from Aerojet and illegally market them to foreign governments, a plan he claims was related to a program to help foreign countries learn to build factories. U.S. District Judge Pamela Ann Rymer set sentencing for July 27.