A huge stash of contraband cigarettes and Viagra-style tablets plus a Samarai swords were found hidden in a house after undercover trading standards officers carried out surveillance on a rogue dealer.
Parents are being urged to help keep illegal tobacco off the streets this summer, with unscrupulous dealers likely to be looking for teenage customers over the school holidays.
MORE than 600 packets of illegal tobacco were seized during raids on retail premises by police and trading standards officers.
A PENSIONER appeared in court yesterday (28th February) accused of selling bootleg cigarettes and tobacco on the streets of South Tyneside.
TRADERS dealing in illicit tobacco were today warned: ‘We are on to you.’ More than 1,000 packets of counterfeit tobacco were seized after sniffer dogs hunted them out during a series of surprise raids.
A SERIES of raids have taken place in County Durham today (Friday, February 15) as part of a crackdown on illegal tobacco.
TWO sniffer dogs discovered more than £4,000 worth of contraband cigarettes and packets of tobacco in children’s lunchboxes.
A HUGE haul of tobacco, which could have cost taxpayers £36,000 in lost revenue, has been seized at the Port of Hull.
AN AIRLINE worker from Leigh has been fined for attempting to smuggle cigarettes into the UK through Manchester Airport.
Ten people have been arrested in raids in the UK and Luxembourg in a suspected £50m tax fraud by an international tobacco smuggling ring.
