Officers seize smuggled cigarettes in a police raid

Over 55,000 packets of cigarettes with a street value of more than £300,000 have been seized by police in South Yorkshire.
Officers with the haul.Officers with the haul.
Officers with the haul.

Officers from Rotherham Central Local Policing Team carried out a raid at an address in Eastwood in Rotherham today.

It is thought that the haul has been smuggled into the UK from abroad.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of tax evasion and possession of criminal property.