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UP THE creek with a paddie, two young kayakers, Patle and Robin Helenius, take advantage of fine boating
conditions in the wake of a water-main rupture Saturday at Riverside Drive and Harbour Road in North

Vancouver District.

WV man faces charges after police confiscate cigarette, tobacco cache

mately $38 in B.C. The price

A WEST Vancouver man is facing
charges under the provincial
Tobacco Tax Act and federal Excise
Act after a July 8 seizure by the
police netted 5,000 cartons of ciga-
rettes and 3,000 bags of tobacco.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter

RCMP Customs and Excise officers from
Vancouver seized the tobacco, valued at
$2-44.000, from an undisclosed private resi-
dence in West Vancouver,

A truck was alse seized if connection with

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the investigation. The man at the centre of the
investigation cannot be identified until for-
maily charged.

“The cigarettes were of U.S. origin,” said
Sgt. Bruce Tiboni, an investigator for the
Customs and Eacise section's alevhol and
tobacco anti-sinuggling unit.

He said the cigarettes did not originally
come from Canada and were likely destined
to be sold commercially.

Tiboni said cigarette smuggling, both
inter-provincially and from the United States
(cross-border), is steadily increasing.

He said the difference in the price of a car-
ton of cigarettes was approximately $22 in
Ontario and Quebee compared with approxi-

difference, he
said, made inter-provincial smuggling
extremely profitable.

The price difference results from the vary-
ing amounts of tax applied to tobacco prod-
ucts in different provinces across Canada.

Meanwhile, a 28-year-old North
Vancouver man was fined $33,100 in North
Vancouver provincial court on July 19 for
possessing [050 cartons of fabuceo in con-
travention of the provincial Tobacco Tax Act.

Peter Hill was found guilty of the charge.
which was laid against him in connection
with an Aug, 17, 1993, incident in North
Vancouver District.

The charge related (o failing to pay the

provincial tax on the cigarettes.

The cigarettes were forfeited to the
Crown. Judge Carl Walker also prohibited
Hill from selling or trading in tobacco prod-
ucts for one year.

Another North Vancouver man, Stewart
William Braddick Jr, was fined $1,000 on
June 30 in connection with a charge of pos-
sessing lobacco that had not been stamped as
prescribed by the federal Excise Act.

Braddick. 33, pleaded guifty to the charge
stemming from incidents that occurred in
North Vancouver City between Jan. &, 1993,
and June 30, 1994, He appeared before Judge
Doug Moss in North Vancouver provincial
court.

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