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Customs and border protection officers (CBP) Southern California According to reports, a massive train from illegally imported cigarettes, which were intercepted by two cruise passengers, has been confiscated last month.
The officials assigned to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport discovered around 150,000 cigarettes, which were kept in 749 boxes in 10 luggage pieces, from a couple who comes from Ensenada, MexicoAccording to a CBP press release on April 17.
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CBP estimated that the confiscation that contained 326 boxes of Newport 100s and 210 boxes of Marlboro Golds but was not limited was a value of $ 59,920, with a low sales price of $ 80 per unit.
“This is definitely a big bust,” Jaime Ruiz, the strategic Medienbirg branch boss for most western USA, told Fox News Digital. Ruiz called it “one of the largest we saw in LA: Lony Beach Seaport Complex”.
According to reports, two women were found in the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport with almost 150,000 smuggling slides. (US customs and border protection | iStock)
The women introduced themselves for inspection after shaking at the Long Beach Cruise Ship Terminal. At that time the cigarette stock was found.
Despite the provision of purchase documents, they could not create any permits for the transport of such a number of tobacco products.
“The sale of illegally imported cigarettes could due to the low cigarette costs when buying overseas and the bypass of taxes that were due to import Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaportafter the publication.
The confiscation occurred on April 17 at the California’s Long Beach Cruise Ship Terminal. (Google Maps)
“This type of system not only contains the United States, but may be harmful to the American consumer,” Bell continued, noting that “CBP officials in the largest SeaPort complex in our country are still obliged to enforce our laws and to protect the American public”.
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The investigation of the incident can be continued, it says in information Fox 11 Los AngelesAnd women can be punished for violating import laws.
Around 749 boxes of cigarettes were confiscated: 326 boxes of NewPort 100s, 210 boxes by Marlboro Golds, 112 boxes by Marlboro Reds, 58 boxes from Newport -Stamm guests and 43 boxes by Marlboro Silvers. (US customs and border protection)
But the “immediate consequence”, noted Ruiz, is that there is now a negative recording and has caused a significant loss of almost $ 60,000 in the past. “
This loss, Ruiz continued, was realized in the seizure and destruction of the cigarettes.
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“Travelers who deliberately ignore the US import laws and regulations often pay a high price,” said Cheryl M. Davies, director of field operations in Los Angeles, in the press release.
