A man charged with falsifying temperatures of poultry exported from Pascagoula, Miss., to Russia has been sentenced to three years on probation and a $2,000 fine. Terry White, Ocean Springs, Miss., was sentenced August 19 after pleading guilty to a conspiracy charge.
White was a warehouse supervisor for Gulf Coast Cold Storage in 2009, when he directed others to falsify blast-freezer records and re-stack loads of poultry to disguise portions that were not cold enough to load onto ships. Shipping the poultry at higher than required temperatures was a violation of a trade agreement with Russia. Gulf Coast Cold Storage is a tenant at the Port of Pascagoula.
Two other suspects in the poultry temperature fraud case, Gerald Miller, Gautier, Miss., and Patrick McClain, Pascagoula, were acquitted during a June trial.
White had earlier been charged with five criminal counts, but four of those counts were dismissed when he plead guilty to the conspiracy charge.
White was a warehouse supervisor for Gulf Coast Cold Storage in 2009, when he directed others to falsify blast-freezer records and re-stack loads of poultry to disguise portions that were not cold enough to load onto ships. Shipping the poultry at higher than required temperatures was a violation of a trade agreement with Russia. Gulf Coast Cold Storage is a tenant at the Port of Pascagoula.
Two other suspects in the poultry temperature fraud case, Gerald Miller, Gautier, Miss., and Patrick McClain, Pascagoula, were acquitted during a June trial.
White had earlier been charged with five criminal counts, but four of those counts were dismissed when he plead guilty to the conspiracy charge.
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