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Illegal booze and tobacco found at lock-up in Walsall

More than £10,000 of fake cigarettes, over 1,000 cans of smuggled booze as well as stolen bottles of spirits were seized within 24 hours of a public tip-off.

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The illegal tobacco and crime unit descended on a storage unit on St Michael’s Street, Caldmore in Walsall on Tuesday morning along with sniffer dogs, trading standards and public health officials.

Stuart Phillips and his drugs dog Yoyo, with the illegal haul

They discovered dozens of crates of beer which had not had their duty paid, bottles of spirits with security tags still on them and suitcases packed with illegal cigarettes.

Outside the lock up
Outside the lock up

No-one has been arrested but investigations are now under way around who is responsible for the haul.

It came after a member of the public provided intelligence to the illegal tobacco crime unit on Monday, when they were set up in Walsall town centre one the first day of a four-day road show in the borough.