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21 in Dorchester, Quincy arrested

Called members of drug rings tying Canada to Boston area

Officials seized 85,000 ecstasy pills, worth nearly $2.6 million, in Operation Polar Express. Officials seized 85,000 ecstasy pills, worth nearly $2.6 million, in Operation Polar Express. (JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF)
By Shelley Murphy and Charles A. Radin
Globe Staff / February 3, 2007

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They worked out of nondescript little storefronts around Dorchester and Quincy: a flower shop, nail salon, grocery store, and wood floor finishing business. But yesterday law enforcement officials said the unidentified businesses were covers for members of Vietnamese drug rings who had been smuggling ecstasy and marijuana from Canada over the past two years and peddling it throughout Greater Boston. (Full article: 698 words)

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