Sarasota convenience store owner pleads guilty

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 4:33 p.m. June 12, 2013
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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SARASOTA — Carlos Chavez, partial owner of Sarasota convenience store Las Americas Latin Market, pleaded guilty Tuesday to theft of government funds in a food-stamp fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announced in a statement. Chavez faces up to 10 years in prison.

 

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