Seafood Firm Owner Pleads Guilty to Falsely Labeling Crab

Seafood Firm Owner Pleads Guilty to Falsely Labeling Crab
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The owner of a Virginia seafood company has pleaded guilty to conspiring to falsely label foreign crabmeat as fresh Chesapeake blue crab.

News outlets report 74-year-old James Casey of Poquoson, who owns Casey’s Seafood in Newport News, entered the plea Wednesday in federal court. He faces up to five years in prison at sentencing Jan. 9.