EASTON, Md. — January 17, 2014 — One of the largest “oyster busts” in Maryland in recent years unfolded in the Easton Walmart parking lot Wednesday evening, Jan. 15.
According to a news release, the Maryland Natural Resources Police arrested a Virginia truck driver and seized a tractor-trailer filled with oysters, many of them undersized.
Rhoderick J. Newman, 66, of Tappahannock, was charged with one count of attempting to transport undersized oysters out of state andfive counts of possession of undersized and unculled oysters. The truck, reportedly owned by Cowart Seafood Corp., of Lottsburg, Va., is being held in an NRP impoundment lot.
Acting on a tip, officers pulled over the truck, which was westbound on U.S. 50 through town. The truck was directed to the far end of the Walmart parking lot for inspection.
According to the news release, officers found that the truck contained 188 bushels of oysters. Working by the light of their vehicle headlights, they counted and measured every oyster, an operation that lasted more than six hours.
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