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14 charged with cigarette smuggling  

Jump to full article: The Washington Post, 2009-11-06
Author: Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer

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Federal prosecutors in Alexandria charged 14 people Thursday with paying money or trading guns and drugs to purchase 388,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes intended for sale in New York. . . .

Two people were also charged with agreeing to hire a hit man to kill a man and his wife who were believed to be stealing some of the cigarettes.

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