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Article

11 Jun 2005

Author:
Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Authorities say north Florida farmworkers lured into servitude with drugs, alcohol [USA]

A farm labor contractor has been accused of luring homeless men into indentured servitude by forcing them to work off debts from the purchase of alcohol and crack cocaine, authorities said. Officials are investigating whether conditions at the farmworker camp run by labor contractor Ronald Robert Evans – which was raided earlier this month by federal and local agents – amounted to modern-day slavery...Evans did not return several phone calls...One of his attorneys, Robert Fields, said it was too early to comment on the allegations but said Evans has cooperated with authorities.