The State - News from Jan. 1, 1988

Actor Martin Sheen and 22 other fellow-defendants arrested in an October protest at Concord Naval Weapons Station were dismissed from court because prosecutors had not lodged charges against them. Mount Diablo Municipal Judge Walter Rogers told them that the Contra Costa County district attorney’s office had a year to decide whether to go forward with prosecution of misdemeanor trespassing and other charges. The defendants, protesting the station’s role of supplying weapons for shipment to Central America, marched through an open gate nearly half a mile into the installation Oct. 27 before they could be stopped by deputies and Marine guards.