Lodi Parachute Center, Acampo, Calif.

A California skydiving instructor who fraudulently trained new instructors at the Lodi Parachute Center in San Joaquin County, including one who died while tandem jumping with an 18-year-old high school graduate in 2016, has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Robert Pooley, 49, of Acampo, was sentenced on Monday after being found guilty in May of running unauthorized tandem skydiving courses at the beleaguered site in San Joaquin County that has seen 28 deaths since 1985.

After Pooley’s certification as an instructor was suspended in 2015, he continued to train more than 100 new instructors using the digital image of the signature........

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