A 68-year-old Illinois man is in jail charged with food tampering after he allegedly inserted sewing needles into packages of meat at a grocery store multiple times in the past year, an official said.

Ronald G. Avers was charged with seven violations of a federal law against tampering with packaged meat, according to court documents.

He will be in court again tomorrow for a detention hearing.

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