SC Poultry Plant Manager Faces Immigration Charge

The manager of a Greenville poultry plant has been indicted on a charge he knowingly hired illegal immigrants. Prosecutors say Barry Cronic began hiring illegal immigrants at Columbia Farms in Greenville in 2000, and kept hiring them until a raid last October. The raid found more than 300 people working at the plant who were in the country illegally.

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Published: April 16, 2009

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The manager of a Greenville poultry plant has been indicted on a charge he knowingly hired illegal immigrants.

Prosecutors say Barry Cronic began hiring illegal immigrants at Columbia Farms in Greenville in 2000, and kept hiring them until a raid last October. The raid found more than 300 people working at the plant who were in the country illegally.

Personnel manager Elaine Crump also was indicted Wednesday on a similar charge. She already faces 20 counts of telling workers to use falsified immigration documents.