From: Express & Star
More than a million fake cigarettes have been seized across the Black Country and Birmingham in raids over the past year.
The tobacco and counterfeit Golden Virginia packets found by police in a raid on a house in Dudley
A total of 30,532 counterfeit or duty free cigarettes and 5kg of tobacco were found using sniffer dogs in illegal tobacco hotspots in Wolverhampton in October. The dogs managed to help uncover cigarettes stored in some unusual places, including hidden underneath a shelving unit that had a concealed area secured by a powerful electro magnet.
In December, shops in the Whitmore Reans area of the city were raided where police uncovered more than 100 packets of cigarettes buried beneath fruit and vegetables at one store.
