The Region - News from May 25, 1986
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The last of eight defendants prosecuted for theft of more than 60,000 cartons of cigarettes in interstate commerce pleaded guilty in Los Angeles federal court. Eugene Seal, 57, admitted that he made arrangements for storage of the stolen cigarettes, valued at about $1 million, in a Compton warehouse after they had been stolen at a North Carolina truck stop in late 1983 and driven to Southern California to be sold. Assistant U.S. Atty. David A. Katz said sentences meted out to the thieves ranged from probation to four years in prison.
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