More than $20,000 in cigarettes confiscated in Oklahoma City

 
From Staff Reports
Published: June 6, 2009

More than $20,000 worth of cigarettes were confiscated Thursday at an Oklahoma City convenience store after authorities found the packages lacked tax stamps.

Detectives went to the Corner Market at NE 17 and Martin Luther King Avenue and found more than 200 packs of cigarettes without tax stamps on them, which means the state had not received its normal $1.03 tax on each of the packs of cigarettes.

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