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Article: Worker at N.C. Farm faces charges of animal cruelty.(Business)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2008
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By Jennifer Jiggetts
The Virginian-Pilot
A North Carolina worker at a farm that supplies hog meat to Smithfield Foods Inc. has been charged with six counts of cruelty to animals, Maj. Kemely Pickett of the Sampson County Detention Center confirmed Tuesday.
Elio Miguel Marrero, who worked on a farm owned by Murphy Family Ventures LLC, was charged in Clinton, N.C., in connection with pig abuse alleged to have occurred last fall.
The charges stemmed from an undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The Norfolk-based animal-rights group sent a worker to the Murphy facility in Garland, N.C., from ...