Newcastle’s biggest ever haul of seized illegal cigarettes and alcohol
Newcastle – Sniffer dogs YoYo and Scamp helped officers from Newcastle’s trading standards team search five properties across the city – uncovering 30,000 illegal cigarettes, illegal tobacco, and more than 400 bottles of whisky and vodka.
The bounty with a street value of £15,000 were uncovered by the specially trained sniffer dogs.
A total of 430 bottles of suspected illicit whisky and vodka and 14,000 cigarettes were seized from two shops in the West End along with a further 800 cigarettes from a city centre takeaway.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/see-newcastles-biggest-ever-haul-10543245
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