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Victoria Police recover contraband cigarettes worth 450K

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 May, 2023 10:29 AM

Victoria Police have recovered contraband cigarettes worth 450-thousand dollars after a months-long investigation into illegal cigarette sales.

Police say they began investigating in February cases of contraband cigarettes being sold in Greater Victoria at a fraction of their retail price.

Investigators eventually traced the cigarettes to two locations: a storage locker in the nearby town of View Royal and a residence on Chambers Street in Victoria.

In addition to finding more than two-thousand cartons of contraband cigarettes combined at the two locations, officers also recovered 65-thousand-dollars in cash.

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