Feds break up massive cigarette smuggling ring

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Thirteen Washington area residents were indicted on charges of trading guns, drugs and cash for black market cigarettes to sell in New York, according to documents filed in federal court in Alexandria.

Two conspirators are also accused of hiring a hit man to kill a husband and wife that they believed tried to steal from them.

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