Man pleads no contest to taking leg from Wasco train crash scene

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A man accused of taking the leg of a train crash victim and swinging it around pleaded no contest Thursday to all charges against him, court records show.

Rosendo Tellez , 27, pleaded no contest to four misdemeanor counts: removing human remains from a location other than a cemetery, disposing of human remains outside of a cemetery, destroying or concealing evidence and resisting a peace officer.

He was sentenced to a year in jail, according to court records.

Investigators reviewed video witnesses took of Tellez with the leg, which belonged to a person hit by a train as it passed the Amtrak Station in Wasco on March 22.

In one, Tellez briefly brought the leg to his mouth , according to court filings. Another shows him “waving the leg with his right hand and lifting it in the air as to present it,” the filings say.

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