What would you guess the following men have in common? Wael Wahid
Abdelaziz (aka “Tony”), Ziad Mahmoud Alaslameh (aka “Zee” and “Ziad
Mahmoud Al Batainch”), Haleem Hamoudeh Hamoudeh (aka “Mike”), Mohammad
Diab Al-Rafati, and Suleiman Bhojani. If you guessed trying to sell
cigarettes with counterfeit tax stamps in Texas, you’d be right. They
tried to sell in excess of 60,000 cigarettes with phony tax stamps. And
authorities siezed over $800,000 in cash. Some of these people owned
convenience stores where the smokes were going to be sold. We wonder if
they were going to sell them at discount. For more on story, you can go
to
this pdf file.
Since it would appear these people were not born here, we have to
wonder if they’ll be deported after serving their senteces. Comments
are welcome.
May 29, 2008 at 2:26 pm
I don`t shop or buy gas from anyplace that has a turban either running it or owning it. I believe in shopping american. Those foreigners save up the profits and bring in more relatives. When you spend with Americans, the money stays right here in Davenport.
I also can`t stand going into a turban run business and smell that food that they always seem to be cooking on a hotplate in the back room. That smell of curry is enough to make you heave. And they don`t seem to find the time to bathe very frequently either.