From: The Day
Reels vows to press tribal sovereignty issue after his shop is raided
By BRIAN HALLENBECK
Mashantucket — When state revenue agents showed up this week at his tiny convenience store on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation, Kenny Reels wondered where they’d been.
“I was shocked it took so long,” Reels said Thursday, days after the Department of Revenue Services seized most of the inventory of cigarettes he’s been selling the past 18 months from his Pequot Trading Post at 11 Ephraim’s Path, which happens to be his home.
Leave this man alone he’s done absolutely nothing wrong He is a upstanding citizen and provides jobs to his family and members, Kenny is the exemplary leader in a suffering community that deserves so much more, Support the Pequot Trading Post, Aj Facas