From: Richmond Times-Dispatch
By MARK BOWES Richmond Times-Dispatch
A Chinese national, his son and a New York man pleaded guilty Monday in a trafficking scheme that sent $3.6 million to $5 million worth of untaxed cigarettes out of Virginia aboard “Chinatown” commercial buses for illegal resale in New York.
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Monday’s case was the second to be adjudicated here in five months
involving a major cigarette trafficking operation. In September, an area
businessman in North Chesterfield pleaded guilty in federal court to
helping traffic 450,000 cartons of cigarettes out of Virginia worth
almost $20 million.
