Five People Arrested for Illegally Trading in American Caviar from Fish in Southeast Waters

Jackson, TN --- On April 16, 2003, five individuals from Russia and other Eastern block nations were arrested in New York and Los Angeles on an 8-count indictment handed down by a Federal grand jury in Jackson, Tennessee for illegally trading in caviar derived from paddlefish and domestic sturgeon unlawfully taken and sold from U.S. lakes and rivers in Tennessee and Kentucky. The arrests resulted from a 2-year undercover investigation conducted by special agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and State wildlife officers from the