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Feedback: Local Farmer Pleads Guilty To Employing Illegal Aliens

Story Published: Dec 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM EDT

Story Updated: Dec 15, 2011 at 7:25 PM EDT

A Jefferson County farmer has pleaded guilty to employing illegal aliens and is ordered to pay a $3,000 fine to the family of a worker who died on his farm.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Syracuse, 47 year old John Barney of Adams, admitted he hired and employed eight illegal aliens from Guatemala to work at Butterville Farms from June 2009 through March 20, 2011.

(Barney is pictured above on the far right.)

On March 20, an illegal alien named Porferio Lopez was killed in an accident on the farm.

Following the accident, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department launched an investigation.

The probe resulted in a raid by special agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who detained the seven illegal aliens who worked on the farm.

In addition to paying $3,000 to Lopez's family, Barney was sentenced to six months of unsupervised release.

Read U.S. Attorney's news release

See our earlier report

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