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Jump to full article: Providence (RI) Journal-Bulletin, 2009-02-12
Author: Gregory Smith Journal Staff Writer
Intro: An undercover criminal investigation in which three men pleaded guilty to trafficking in contraband cigarettes has borne more illicit fruit, federal authorities said yesterday.
U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente and Glenn N. Anderson, special agent in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced that seven men have been indicted on drug-peddling and firearms offenses in the same probe, which focused on a convenience store on Federal Hill in Providence.
The investigation was "based" in and around Broadway Mart, 447 Broadway, Corrente and Anderson said in a statement. Thomas Connell, spokesman for Corrente, said that because the foundation for the indictments are a confidential grand jury matter he was not yet free to elaborate on how the store figured into the investigation.
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