Source: PnB Online - Cuiabá / MT - CAPA - 05/08/2010

The person responsible for the cargo, Roberto Carlos dos Santos, 45, was arrested and taken to the police station.

 
 
A charge of approximately 10 packs of cigarettes was seized by the Military Police when, curiously, a citizen was trying to pick up the parcel in the Barratur courtyard, in Barra do Garças.
 
The merchandise, coming from Primavera do Leste, would go to the city of Ponte Branca and its note only discriminated against different goods. The person responsible for the cargo, Roberto Carlos dos Santos, 45, was arrested and taken to the police station.

Lieutenant Emanuel followed the operation and found the contraband to be "very daring" to be forwarded by a carrier. At the time of the approach he tried to talk it out saying that he did not know it was imported cigarettes and that the order would belong to a friend in the city of Ponte Branca. The 10 packs of Euro brand cigarettes were seized and taken to the municipal police station where they are to be incinerated.

A large number of people are trying to circumvent the security system and smuggle cigarettes, watches, whiskeys, energy drinks, medicines and even Viagra, the love pill. According to the police, in addition to the risk of evading and being arrested for that, they also have the risk of consuming inappropriate products.

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