New Bedford fisherman pleaded guilty to evading more than $431,000 in federal income taxes over the course of seven years.

Victor M. Cruz, 43, pleaded guilty to three counts of tax evasion in federal court in Boston on Tuesday. A warrant was put out for his arrest in August of 2021, and in July of last year he was arrested in Brownsville, Texas — a shrimp fishing port on the southernmost tip of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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