B.C. man pleads guilty to having illegal cigarettes in minivan

Published Monday March 24th, 2008

THE CANADIAN PRESS

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A man from British Columbia has been fined $48,000 after admitting to having illegal cigarettes in the minivan he was driving.

Lorne Douglas Clarke, 59, of Kamloops was stopped and arrested on the Trans-Canada Highway in Saskatchewan on the weekend. Officers said they found 1,500 cartons of illegal cigarettes in the van, which was heading west.

Clarke appeared in a Moose Jaw court Monday and pleaded guilty to offences under the Excise Act, the Controlled Drug and Substances Act and the Criminal Code of Canada.

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