Victoria Police have recovered contraband cigarettes worth 450-thousand dollars after a months-long investigation into illegal cigarette sales.
Police say they began investigating in February cases of contraband cigarettes being sold in Greater Victoria at a fraction of their retail price.
Investigators eventually traced the cigarettes to two locations: a storage locker in the nearby town of View Royal and a residence on Chambers Street in Victoria.
In addition to finding more than two-thousand cartons of contraband cigarettes combined at the two locations, officers also recovered 65-thousand-dollars in cash.
