From: CBC News
Craig Blacksmith and Tammy Walters given 10 years to pay off fines, tax penalties
RCMP and Dakota Ojibway Police Service officers seized these boxes of cigarettes, as well as chewing tobacco, firearms and other items, during a raid at a smoke shop at the Dakota Plains First Nation in January 2014. (RCMP)
The owner of a First Nations smoke shop in Manitoba, along with an employee, face more than $2 million in fines and penalties after nearly a million untaxed cigarettes were seized two years ago.
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The Dakota Chundee shop, which was run by eight First Nations on off-reserve land near Pipestone, Man., had been raided numerous times by authorities from the time it opened in 2011.
