{West Virginia}...Basim Ali Talouzi, 45, of Charleston, has been sentenced to five years in prison for buying and selling more than 17,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes and thousands of dollars worth of prescription pills in Huntington. Talouzi pleaded guilty in April to charges of conspiracy to transport, receive, possess, purchase and sell contraband cigarettes and for a controlled substance offense. Between July 2010 and January 2011, Talouzi sold 3,422,400 contraband cigarettes, resulting in about $94,116 in lost tax revenue to the state. He also sold nearly 120 80-milligram and 50 30-milligram Oxycodone pills to undercover agents with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives. Talouzi will have to pay a $5,000 fine.
