Elio Miguel Marrero has been charged with six counts of cruelty to animals. His conduct while working at a Garland, N.C., sow farm owned by Murphy Family Ventures, an independent contract grower for Smithfield's livestock production subsidiary Murphy-Brown, was captured on videotape by an undercover PETA member.

PETA said in a press release issued Tuesday that a second man, who has fled North Carolina, also faces animal cruelty charges based on the videotape footage and "other evidence from the investigation."

That evidence is in the hands of the Sampson County district attorney.

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