From: NBC4 Washington
Some tobacco shoppers at popular big box warehouse stores in Northern Virginia are suspected of illegally smuggling the cigarettes through an underground network.
An undercover review by the News-4 I-Team – and public testimony given by regulators with the Northern Virginia Cigarette Tax Board – show a series of an enormous individual cigarette purchases, some topping $150,000 per purchase, by customers at big box stores from Woodbridge to Fredericksburg.