Contraband cigarettes, drugs seized on west coast

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Published on October 24, 2012; Published on October 24, 2012

Topics :: RCMP , RNC Joint Forces Unit , Trans-Canada Highway , Corner Brook

A 48-year-old man is facing a number of charges after police seized a large amount of contraband cigarettes and cigars, marijuana and methamphetamine tablets Tuesday on the province’s west coast.

The arrest was made after members of the RCMP and RNC Joint Forces Unit stopped a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway near Pasadena.

Seized were 2.5 pounds of cannabis marihuana, 10 tablets of methamphetamine, 450 cartons of contraband cigarettes, and two cartons of cigars.

Charges were laid under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Excise Act and the Revenue Administration Act.

The accused was released from custody to appear in provincial court in Corner Brook on Jan. 15.

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Cameron Curnew

- February 22, 2013 at 21:48:21

People only choose to buy contraband cigarettes because of the outrageously high price of cigarettes in canada i mean the gouverment keeps raising taxes on cigarettes and its only making people choose to buy them illegally for example a carton of cigarettes cost (in stores) 80$-90$, carton of cigarettes cost (contraband) 12$-20$....

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