Police seize more than 5 packages of smuggled cigarettes in the north of the state

By ETCO

Source: Zero Hora Online - Porto Alegre / RS - 20/09/2010

Illegal merchandise was in a truck, which was being escorted by a cloned license plate car

The Federal Highway Police, together with the Federal Police (PF), seized on Monday morning more than 5 packages of smuggled cigarettes during operation at Km 06 of BR-386, in the municipality of Iraí, in the north of the state. The illegal merchandise was in a truck with Dom Pedrito plates.

According to the PF, the driver of the vehicle acted in partnership with another man, who was driving a Fiat Strada with a cloned license plate. The Fiat was driving ahead, warning the truck driver about the presence of police on the highway.


The two were arrested in flagrante delicto for smuggling and sent to the Regional Prison of Santo Ângelo.