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East Riding TS make £14,500 seizure


Illicit vapes, tobacco and cigarettes were found in a series of recent raids

Richard Young

Posted 06 November 2024 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Crime|Yorkshire and the Humber


UPDATES: East Riding Trading Standards has seized illicit tobacco and vape products worth £14,500 from Goole businesses, with hidden stock found during Operation CeCe raids supported by police and detection dogs.

East Riding of Yorkshire Trading Standards Officers have seized £14,500 worth of illicit tobacco and vape products from four businesses in Goole.

With support from Humberside Police and specially trained tobacco detection dogs supplied by Wagtail Ltd, Officers visited the businesses on 24 October and found 440 illicit vapes, 22,500 cigarettes and more than 10kg of hand-rolling tobacc...

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