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McAllen warehouse used in massive cigarette smuggling scheme forfeited

After a little more than four years of litigation, federal authorities have seized a McAllen warehouse used as a staging ground for an international scheme to smuggle hundreds of millions of contraband cigarettes.

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After a little more than four years of litigation, federal authorities have seized a McAllen warehouse used as a staging ground for an international scheme to smuggle hundreds of millions of contraband cigarettes.

On Wednesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nadia S. Medrano signed an agreed order to forfeit the warehouse located at 3901 W. Ursula Ave.

The long drawn out process of forfeiture started in 2020 after authorities with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Mexican Tax Administration learned 17 million contraband cigarettes in a tractor-trailer at the warehouse were destined for Mexico despite being banned for health reasons. And it wasn’t a “one-off scheme.”