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Ontario police have shut down a large contraband cigarette manufacturing plant on a First Nation’s reserve that was allegedly run by non-Indigenous criminal networks accused of exploiting indigenous lands to cover their activities. The bootleg cigarette plant was staffed by 13 people identified as foreign nationals, police said after the raids. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Six Nations Police Service seized five complete commercial-sized cigarette manufacturing lines, a handgun, and tobacco products with an estimated street value of more than $10 million,...