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June 10, 2025

'WE'RE RIPPING THE PLACE TO SHREDS'... ILLEGAL CIGS AND VAPES SHOPS RAIDED

- NAOMI DESOUZA News Reporter

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A BIRMINGHAM convenience store was found to have a van full of illicit cigarettes worth £500,000.

The Erdington High Street shop was one of two premises raided by Trading Standards officers and West Midlands Police yesterday morning.

The action saw multiple cars seized, including a battered Transit van in a back alley behind the shop, which was found to have a whopping one million cigarettes worth £500,000.

The Birmingham Mail was there to witness officers smashing their way into a BMW 3 series outside the shop which resulted in more illicit tobacco being seized.

Police, council and immigration officers led two intelligence-based raids on Erdington stores a part of Operation Fearless and Operation Cloud, the latter of which is run by Trading Standards.

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