Since new vape import regulations took effect on 1 January 2024, Australian Border Force (ABF) officers in Queensland have stopped almost 180,000 vape devices and 25,000 vape products from entering…
Police have seized cigarettes worth almost $130,000 during a vehicle stop near Broken Hill yesterday. Officers attached Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were patrolling the Barrier Highway about 10am (Friday…
Police have laid almost 150 charges against a man following an investigation into prohibited weapons being supplied to youth gang members in Melbourne’s southeast last year. On 25 October 2023,…
More than half a million dollars' worth of vapes have been stopped from ever making it to Sydney's streets, after an air cargo consignment of more than two and a…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), with the support of the Australian Border Force led Illicit Tobacco Taskforce (ITTF) and Victoria Police’s VIPER Taskforce, has seized and destroyed more than 2,700 kg…
Six Melbourne men including some with alleged links to a suspected Middle Eastern crime family have been charged for allegedly trying to import 10 million illicit cigarettes into Victoria after…
NSW Health inspectors and NSW Police officers, working with officers from the Therapeutic Goods Administration, conducted 60 raids between 29 January and 2 February 2024. The most recent raids seized…
Police have charged two men and seized four guns and a significant amount of illicit tobacco as part of an investigation by Taskforce Lunar into a series of suspicious fires…
Hobson’s Bay Crime Investigation Unit detectives seized more than two tonnes of illicit tobacco and cigarettes during a search warrant in Altona North last week. Police were called to reports…
An AFP-led Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce (CACT) investigation into a West Australian illicit tobacco trafficker has led to the restraint of about $200,000 cash and eight properties. The CACT began…