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FBI raids Upstate cigarette distributor  

ANDERSON -- Federal authorities have raided a cigarette distributor as part of a two-year, multistate investigation into illegal cigarette sales.

The FBI said a search warrant was executed Thursday at Holley Sales Group in Anderson.

The bureau said the raid was tied to similar searches over the past two months at cigarette manufacturers in Russell Springs, Ky., and Cynthiana, Ky., and a distributor in Tupelo, Miss.

Those searches followed the April discovery of a warehouse in Mississippi containing millions of dollars worth of contraband cigarettes.

No arrests had been made.

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