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Omaha World Herald: ATF agents target smuggled cigarettes
This isn't your typical federal drug prosecution.
First there's the drug: Nicotine, in the form of cigarettes.
Then there's the way the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nabbed the defendants — by setting up an undercover tobacco warehouse in Kansas City, Mo.
The result of the sting? A $17 million conspiracy unraveled, and 18 people indicted, including the one-time warehouse distribution manager for Ho-Chunk Inc., the economic development arm of the Winnebago Tribe in Nebraska.
First there's the drug: Nicotine, in the form of cigarettes.
Then there's the way the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nabbed the defendants — by setting up an undercover tobacco warehouse in Kansas City, Mo.
The result of the sting? A $17 million conspiracy unraveled, and 18 people indicted, including the one-time warehouse distribution manager for Ho-Chunk Inc., the economic development arm of the Winnebago Tribe in Nebraska.
More at: http://www.omaha.com/article/20130815/NEWS/130819397