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Brownsville company pleads guilty to relabeling Mexican shrimp as domestic
Federal prosecutors say a Brownsville shrimping company has pleaded guilty to relabeling 35,000 pounds of hard-to-sell Mexican shrimp as wild-caught American crustaceans. U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite’s office said in a news release that Garcia Shrimp Co., of Brownsville, Texas, admitted Thursday to a violation of the century-old federal Lacey Act. Polite said the company created false bills of lading and sold the shrimp to a New Orleans-based distributor. Read the rest here 15:14
