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CAPE BRETON:<\/strong> RCMP in Cape Breton have charged a Halifax man and a Dartmouth woman following a traffic stop by RCMP Northeast Traffic Services – NETS-CB on Jan. 19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In a release, RCMP say that the traffic stop in Millville resulted in an important seizure of unstamped tobacco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On January 19, 2024, at approximately 3:50 p.m., an officer of the NETS-CB was conducting speed enforcement on Hwy. 105 when a white Ford Transit was observed travelling at a high rate of speed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A traffic stop was completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”192″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the stop, the officer learned that the driver, a 45-year-old Halifax man, had a revoked license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A second RCMP officer, who attended the scene to assist, then observed illegal cigarettes in plain view inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The driver and the passenger, a 32-year-old Dartmouth woman, were safely arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the assistance of Audit & Enforcement, Compliance and Special Investigations officers of the Province’s Alcohol, Gaming, Fuel and Tobacco division, a search of the vehicle led to the seizure of 64 cases of unstamped tobacco, worth approximately $160,000, bound for Sydney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The vehicle was also seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The duo, who was later released on conditions, will face multiple charges under the Revenue Act, Excise Act, Criminal Code and the Motor Vehicle Act. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They are scheduled to appear in Sydney Provincial Court on June 13, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n File #: 2024-81430 <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”71″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”188″] [adrotate banner=”169″] CAPE BRETON: RCMP in Cape Breton have charged a Halifax man and a Dartmouth woman following a traffic stop by RCMP Northeast Traffic Services – NETS-CB on Jan. 19. In a release, RCMP say that the traffic stop in Millville resulted in an important seizure of unstamped tobacco. On January 19, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[6038,4741,185,50,3451,14],"class_list":["post-42298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cape-breton-2","tag-cbrm","tag-dartmouth","tag-halifax","tag-illegal-tobacco","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}