From: Border Counties Advisor
Dog sniffs out haul of smuggled tobacco hidden in shop wall
SMUGGLED tobacco worth thousands of pounds has been seized from an Oswestry shop.
Cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco were found in a narrow cavity wall built into the storeroom of the corner shop during a raid carried out by Shropshire Council public protection officers and West Mercia Police.
The keen nose of Bradley the Springer Spaniel, a specially trained tobacco detection dog, was vital to the find last week.
Grant Tunnadine, investigations team manager for the council’s public protection service, said: “With Bradley there to indicate the presence of tobacco it enables us to direct our attention to specific areas within the shop and storage areas.
