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MP hopes to bring detained N.B. farmer home

May 30, 2011  By Times & Transcript


May 25, 2011, Fredericton,
NB – New Brunswick MP Mike Allen is meeting with new Foreign Affairs Minister
John Baird this week to discuss the plight of a Grand Falls-area potato farmer
detained in Lebanon.

May 25, 2011, Fredericton,
NB – New Brunswick MP Mike Allen is meeting with new Foreign Affairs Minister
John Baird this week to discuss the plight of a Grand Falls-area potato farmer
detained in Lebanon.

Henk Tepper of Tobique
Farms near Grand Falls has been detained in Lebanon since March 23 under an
international arrest warrant for alledgedly selling bad potatoes to Algeria in
2007.

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