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NY holding on to cigarettes bound for Winnebago distributor

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By Al Joens, Morning & Noon Anchor - bio | email
ALBANY, N.Y. (KTIV) -

Officials in New York state are challenging a court order telling them to release a truckload of untaxed cigarettes with ties to a Siouxland Indian tribe.  The shipment of 26,000 cartons of "Signal" brand cigarettes was stopped on its way from the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation to HCI Distributors, a subdivision of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.

New York state Supreme Court Justice David Demarest ruled two weeks ago that there was no tax due on the cigarettes and he ordered the state to give them back.

But state police say they're not changing their enforcement practices and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has filed an appeal notice, temporarily halting the order to release the cigarettes.

HCI sued State Police and prosecutors in St. Lawrence County, New York.

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