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14 charged with illegal buys of 77 million cigs 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-11-05

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Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.

Two are also accused of paying an agent posing as a hit man to kill a husband and wife whom they believed had stolen from them.

The indictments handed up Thursday in federal court in Alexandria are the culmination of a yearlong investigation.

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