240,000 cigarettes held amid Seneca tax dispute
Nov 12, 2006, 17:41
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Federal agents are holding 240,000 cigarettes that were recently seized while on their way to a tobacco dealer on the Seneca Nation's Cattaraugus Reservation. According to court papers, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives obtained a court order and seized the cigarettes Feb. 28 at a truck stop on Broadway in Cheektowaga.The cigarettes did not have the legally required tax stamps on them, and the truck's load was described in a freight bill as "24 pieces of assorted products," federal prosecutors said. The cigarettes were being delivered from Mohawk Distribution in Hogansburg to Seneca Direct at 1525 Cayuga Road in Irving, authorities said
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