14 charged in cigarette smuggling ring

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Fourteen Washington area residents have been charged with paying $8 million for 77 million contraband cigarettes sold by undercover agents and smuggling them to New York.

Two of those people were also accused of paying an undercover officer posing as a hit man to kill a man and his wife, whom they believed had stolen from them.

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