Man busted with 2,701 cartons of untaxed cigarettes

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/275124667-story ^ | 8-21-17

[Cowboy Bob]

Derar Hajjat, 30, of Chincoteague, Virginia.

If I remember correctly, Hajjat is one of the "First Families of Virginia."

[crazy scenario]

" They arrested Derar Hajjat, 30, of Chincoteague, Virginia.

Must be one of those dark Italians...................... 

I believe he's from bumtuck, Egypt......I think I got the spelling off.....seems there should be an "f" somewhere in there!

[Red Badger]

[Brian Griffin]

That’s about 2,500 cartons.

The fines work about to be about $3 per cigarette.

[fella]

That’s not an old school Virginian name.

[Yo-Yo]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

[Red Badger]

I don’t think they were at Jamestown..................

[M Kehoe]

He knows where the corn whiskey is buried.

5.56mm

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Derar Hajjat? Not guilty inshalla!

[Drew68]

i do not see a problem with what he did.

I don't either.

In 2014 when I was a smoker, was buying cartons of Marlboro Reds in the Republic of Georgia for $6 --about a tenth of what they sold for in the United States.

Lots of people got rich fast with the $250 billion tobacco tax settlement. Others didn't see a dime. It's a racket. If you know the right people, there's money beyond your wildest dreams, most of it paid to you by poor addicts.

[unread]

Good thing he wasn't selling “loosies," they would have killed him..!

[JesusIsLord]

Where does one buy smokes, wholesale or retail, that have not already been taxed? I thought federal taxes were applied when RJ and other cigarette companies sell to wholesale resellers. So again, where did this muslim find cigarettes that were not already taxed?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hajjat was released on his own recognizance.

Yeah, RIIIIIIGHT. Like they're ever going to see THIS guy again.

[wally_bert]

If he had been a normal American, NY probably would have had him shot no questions asked.

[OldMissileer]

Where does one buy smokes, wholesale or retail, that have not already been taxed? I thought federal taxes were applied when RJ and other cigarette companies sell to wholesale resellers. So again, where did this muslim find cigarettes that were not already taxed?

He was buying them in Virginia which has the lowest tobacco tax rates in the US. A $40 carton of Newports in VA goes for more than twice that price in New York.

With the number of cartons he had he must have done a lot of traveling in VA since the law says a person or group may not purchase more than five cartons, and that also means they can't go out the door and just go back in to get five more.

[SgtHooper]

LOL!

[Joe Bfstplk]

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

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The smoking lamp is out...

[Sam Gamgee]

Uh, yes, well I think Robert Spencer has written about these schemes to fund the caliphate by selling cigarettes to high tax states.

[Disambiguator]

Sell ‘em and pay off the national debt. That many cartons should be worth close to $100 Trillion, right?

[JesusIsLord]

He was buying them in Virginia which has the lowest tobacco tax rates in the US...

I didn't realize there was so much difference in cigarette taxes between states. After your post, I checked and learned that NY cigarette taxes are $4.35/pack and VA is $0.30 . WOW!! No wonder they call NY the land of taxes.