Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) Is a Tobacco Trafficking Transnational Criminal Organization

Gangs such as MS-13 have been linked to cigarette trafficking and people who have tried to circumvent these organizations have turned up dead. Violence, turf wars, and other crimes will inevitably be linked to cigarette traffickers. If law enforcement agencies view tobacco trafficking as simple tax avoidance, they may overlook an underworld of associated crimes and criminal activity until it is too late to intervene.