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State's seizures skyrocket

Published 07/09/09

County residents looking for a cheaper way to get cigarettes and alcohol will be facing a smaller market after the state Comptroller's Office had a boom year in seizures.

Joshua McKerrow — The Capital Comptroller Peter Franchot, left, and Jeff Kelly, director of field enforcement, display some of the contraband cigarettes, beer and even a homemade still seized by field agents from the state Comptroller's Office. The state dramatically increased the amount of illicit merchandise taken off the street in the past year.
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Standing in front of cases of Corona beer and Marlboro cigarettes in Annapolis yesterday, Comptroller Peter Franchot announced that his field enforcement agents seized about three times as many illegal cigarettes and more than double the gallons of distilled liquor and beer containers in fiscal 2009 as compared to fiscal 2008.

Agents issued 113 cigarette violations and confiscated 172,715 packs of cigarettes, which have a value of $853,220, between July...

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