From: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Two New Jersey residents face charges of using shell businesses and accomplices to purchase $9.5 million worth of Virginia cigarettes and transport them to New Jersey for illegal resale in a major cigarette trafficking operation.
Authorities allege one suspect, Laila Alayat, 37, who was warned last month that any attempt to leave the U.S. would be construed as an attempt to flee prosecution, was arrested Feb. 11 after passing through security at JFK International Airport with a ticket to Amman, Jordan.
