Legal highs: Man arrested after Wolverhampton city centre tobacco shop raided by police
A man has been arrested on suspicion of supplying legal highs in Wolverhampton after a tobacco shop was shut by police.
Smokers Den, in Queen Square, was searched last Wednesday and closed immediately by the city's local policing unit.
A 61-year-old was bailed pending further enquiries but the shop will remain closed for the foreseeable future.
Kate Baker, of West Midlands Police, said: "Officers executed a search warrant at the Smokers Den, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, on Wednesday.
"A 61-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of supply of a psychoactive substance. He has been bailed pending further enquiries." The arrest follows a blanket ban on so-called legal highs, which came into force in the UK in May.
The new laws criminalised the production, distribution, sale and supply of what are otherwise known as new psychoactive substances. Last year legal highs were linked to more than 100 deaths in the UK. Offenders face up to seven years in prison under the Psychoactive Substances Act.
