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Jump to full article: NewsOK, 2009-06-06
Author: From Staff Reports
Intro: 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.
"At that point, we notified the Oklahoma Tax Commission and they sent agents out to the location," police Master Sgt. Gary Knight said.
Police were notified about possible stolen cigarettes being sold at the location after a CVS store employee spotted cigarettes at the convenience store bearing CVS stamps, Knight said.
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