From: Crawford County Now
By Krystal Smalley
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Twenty-eight-year-old Elijah McNeil, of Mebane, N.C., was one of three people arrested after an Ohio State Highway Patrol traffic stop revealed the trio was transporting 110 cartons of untaxed cigarettes.
McNeil pleaded guilty to trafficking in cigarettes with intent to avoid payment of tax, a fourth-degree felony. He received a six-month prison sentence while a second charge of possessing cigarettes not bearing stamps was dismissed. McNeil was also ordered to forfeit seized property to the Ohio Department of Taxation.
