From: MassLive
Cigarette trafficking was ‘family business’ and son was enlisted by father as a teen, lawyer says during guilty plea
SPRINGFIELD — The son of a man charged in a mult-state illegal cigarette-selling operation pleaded guilty Wednesday in his own related case, with his attorney telling a Hampden Superior Court judge the illicit “family business” is all his client has known.
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Dejesus Perez’s father, Pedro T. Perez, 53, is charged with running an enterprise that involved transporting, selling and distributing illegal, untaxed cigarettes to convenience stores around Massachusetts and across state lines.
