Newton Grove Labor Camp Owner Indicted

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

(comment) Great. Labor camps... For those of us who don't want to work at Wally World.


A new indictment alleges that farmworkers at two camps were sold crack cocaine on credit by the camps’ owner and the amount was deducted from their weekly paychecks.

Ronald Evans Sr., his wife, Jequita Evans, and his son, Ronald Evans Jr. are among eight people facing up to life in prison if convicted on charges of dealing cocaine at labor camps in Johnston County, N.C. and in East Palatka, Fla.

The indictment, issued last week and unsealed Tuesday, is the fourth round of charges since authorities raided Mr. Evans’ East Palatka camp in June. The indictment remained sealed until Tuesday. Five of the eight defendants were named in previous indictments, but the two most notable additions are Jequita Evans and Ronald Evans Jr.

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The latest indictment includes the previous charges, including labor and environmental charges. The farm labor crews work on North Carolina potato and vegetable farms in the summer and early fall. Workers usually return to northeast Florida in October or November for the cabbage and potato seasons.

More: http://www.dunndailyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=71633&TM=42905.32

[madrchsod]

1. isn`t nice to know

whether it`s in the fields or in some walled in rooms in the cities slavery still exists in this country. these people should be flogged in the town square

[ret5hd]

2. this exact thing was reported on a few years ago...

in the Georgia peach orchards.

[htuttle]

3. "Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go.."

"...I owe my soul to the company crack dealer."

[Judi Lynn]

4. I pray they can shut this monster down.

Florida has a HIDEOUS record of abusing the poor through treacherous slavery games. There was a tv special done on CBS concerning the Cuban-owned (Fanjul family) sugar cane industry in South Florida.

The exploitation and brutality of these slavers toward the "employees" is barbaric. They are utterly without conscience. They find it easy to brutalize people, use their lives and energy, and play games with them, keep them in fear, to keep them both from earning enough to keep a decent shirt on their backs, and living in such fear they are nearly worked to death before anyone knows about it, if they ever do.

I hate them. I hate all exploitive people. I yearn for a day this can't happen.