CIGARETTE DEFENDANT WORKS FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
One of the local residents named in a 58-count federal indictment
alleging they supplied untaxed cigarettes to Coeur d'Alene tribal
businesses works for a local law enforcement agency.
Problem is, none of the attorneys involved in the case, in which
federal prosecutors are seeking $84 million from two Spokane
wholesalers, would say Monday which agency employs 30-year-old
Joseph D. Dunsmoor.
He appeared Monday in U.S. District Court along with the others
named in the indictment. They are: L.A. Nelson Co., doing
business as Burke's Distributing, and its owners, Douglas E.
Burke, 51, and Brandon E. Donahue, 34; and Black Sheep
Distributing Inc., and its owner Brian T. Donahue, 30, all of
Spokane. . . .
According to the indictment, Dunsmoor delivered cigarettes to a
location that was redacted from the record. "In those instances,
Joseph D. Dunsmoor would unload the Washington retailer's order
from the Blacksheep Distributing Inc. truck directly to the
Washington retailer's vehicle."
The new indictment is the latest development in a state and
federal investigation that started with a series of raids on
smoke shops on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in 2003.
