Jul 31 - Local Man Fined For Transporting Cigarettes
A local man was yesterday fined £1,300 and has had his car forfeited for transporting a commercial quantity of cigarettes at Magistrates’ Court.
Ernest Peralta, of Rotterdam Court in Harbour Views, was found guilty of transporting 30,000 cigarettes in a vehicle without a licence, and for being in unlawful possession of the said cigarettes.
The incident took place on 21st May 2015 at around 1pm, when Peralta was stopped by Customs officers as part of a routine investigation. He was caught with 150 cartons of Ducal Red in the boot of his white Suzuki Baleno car in Winston Churchill Avenue area and was subsequently arrested and charged.
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