{"id":58764,"date":"2025-09-23T18:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=58764"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T21:50:37","slug":"traffic-stop-leads-to-charges-and-seizure-of-unstamped-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=58764","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop leads to charges and seizure of unstamped tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56557&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GOFFS:<\/strong> RCMP Southeast Traffic Services has arrested a man and a woman and seized a large quantity of unstamped tobacco after a traffic stop.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 20, at approximately 10:36 a.m., an RCMP officer was conducting proactive patrols on Hwy. 102 in Goffs when they observed a Promaster 2500 van with Quebec license plate swerving in and out of their lane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle and learned the van contained unstamped tobacco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver, a 51-year-old man, and passenger, a 47-year-old woman, both from Yarmouth, were arrested and the van was searched, locating 1500 cartons of unstamped tobacco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver and passenger are facing charges under the Criminal Code, Excise Act and provincial Revenue Act related to possession of unstamped tobacco for the purpose of selling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both were released and will be appearing in Dartmouth Provincial Court at a later date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #: 25-136417<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOFFS: RCMP Southeast Traffic Services has arrested a man and a woman and seized a large quantity of unstamped tobacco after a traffic stop.\u00a0\u00a0 On September 20, at approximately 10:36 a.m., an RCMP officer was conducting proactive patrols on Hwy. 102 in Goffs when they observed a Promaster 2500 van with Quebec license plate swerving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[665,62,14,5236,8271],"class_list":["post-58764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-goffs","tag-hwy-102","tag-rcmp","tag-traffic-stop","tag-unstamped-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58764","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=58764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}