Authorities break up Chinatown buses cigarette-smuggling ring

From: New York Post

By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein

A trafficking operation that used Chinatown buses and cars to bring 2 million contraband cigarettes into New York City every week has been extinguished by authorities.

The alleged ringleaders ran a tobacco shop in Virginia, where taxes are far lower, and would buy large quantities of smokes at about $40 a carton, said city Sheriff Joseph Fucito.

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