The owners of S&W Atlas Iron & Metal Co., a metal recycling company that caused controversy for its disposal of hazardous waste adjacent to a high school in Watts, were sentenced to two years of probation on Tuesday.

Atlas, owned by Gary Weisenberg, 78, and his 37-year-old son Matthew Weisenberg, was shut down temporarily earlier this year.

On May 20, the father-son ownership team pleaded no contest to five felony counts of hazardous waste disposal at an unpermitted site, two misdemeanor counts of hazardous waste disposal at an unpermitted site and two misdemeanor counts of public nuisance, resulting in the firm being permanently shuttered.

The site in question is located next to Jordan High School on South Alameda Street in Watts, where students and faculty alleged long-term dangers da

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