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OFFICERS FROM THE Revenue Commissioners in Dublin Airport seized 52,400 cigarettes yesterday.
The NZ Gold and Kent brand packets were sniffed out by tobacco-detection dog, Frankie, after a flight landed from Kaunas, Lithuania.
According to Revenue, the cigarettes have a retail value of €25,000 – posing a potential loss to the Exchequer of €21,500.
Two women, aged 25 and 26, were arrested. They were found to be in possession of 17,600 and 17,800 cigarettes, respectively, when officers searched their baggage.
Another 17,000 cigarettes were seized from five other passengers from the same flight.
The two women, both Lithuanian nationals, appeared before Judge Patricia McNamara today and were remanded in custody until Friday.
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I’ve started a fund for these 2 innocent girls who were obviously coerced.
I hope he has a 24 hour body gaurd. Look what happened to that under cover cat in Love / Hate.
That cat had it commin. Was acting sly. Word on the street was that the cat was a rat
Ha you two are hillarious. Gaurdian you should be banned from commenting after the horseshite you said about love hate being better than breaking bad. Not even close. And that dog is nothing but a snitch stool pigeon.
I bet he gets all the bitches.
They deliberately use black dogs to avoid being called racist…
They still chain them up.
Theres a good doggy!
Hope he has a short cough….
Will the Revenue ever learn❓
The more you tax something the more it becomes an illicit commodity.
The same applies to alcohol and similarly to cannabis.
They who do you suggest pays the medical bills for the cancers and the other serious illnesses that they all cause ?
Then
Didn’t know there was a tax on cannabis
Not yet
Didn’t know cannabis wae taxed, thought it was illegal. If so and it is taxed should the revenue be investigated re receiving monies from illegal sources? Just a thought
Scrap….
That is one reason why they won’t legalise cannabis.
Because the Revenue have no control over this commodity.
Any Tom Dick or Harry can grow their own cannabis on a windowsill.
And the Revenue would not get a cent in takings.
Same people who pay for all the illnesses high sugar diets cause, it s an epidemic, it even has me scared, the next door neighbour is morbidly obese and I fear it may be contagious.
I tell ya. It is contagious. It took the c… ages just to walk to the shop for a bar Of chocolate. :)
Pity he couldnt sniff out illegal immagants claiming dole and flying back to Poland
Tobacco detention dog?? Does he keep the ciggs in after school if they’ve been bold?
If it wasn’t for that pesky dog…
Rename the dog Smokey!
Frankie looks so bloody harmless!!!
Ban the cancer sticks alltogether
please do, i need the money.
You would probably have all my money if you sold them after they were banned. I see your logic in banning them
that dog needs a stronger nicotine patch
Such a clever boy Frankie!!! All very proud of your great work and of course your handler from your vets :-))
“Illegal cigarette” what makes a cigarette illegal? Surely its the act of tax avoidance that’s illegal and not the cigarette’s.
Shouldn’t it be Dog “detection” as a heading?
Thata boy Frankie, I hope he got his hole off the two Lithuanian women after the find!
Saint Peter of the inappropriate replies is it ?
Who lights them for him?
I would love to give Frankie the old love / hate treatment
Wait until the dog gets cancer and becomes a meth king pin to support his family. Then we’ll be sorry.
“Puff!”, said Faherty
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