From: The Dispatch
BERLIN — A New York man was arrested for transporting untaxed cigarettes after a traffic stop in Berlin on Monday.
Around 7 p.m. on Monday, a Maryland State Police trooper stopped a vehicle on northbound Route 113 at Germantown Rd. for excessive speeding. The driver was identified as Baleek Thabet, 22, of Corona, N.Y. During the traffic stop, numerous cartons of cigarettes were observed in the vehicle.