Police dismantled a gang selling fake Viagra, hippy crack and illegal vapes worth thousands of pounds in a series of raids on Birmingham shops last night (26/11).
The operation, led by Trading Standards officers and West Midlands Police, also uncovered drugs, counterfeit tobacco, fake vapes, snuff, and other illegal imports.
Video footage shows a teenage boy being arrested during the intelligence-led operation as cops swooped at two convenience stores in the city.
The operation, led by Trading Standards officers and West Midlands Police, also uncovered drugs, counterfeit tobacco, fake vapes, snuff, and other illegal imports.
Video footage shows a teenage boy being arrested during the intelligence-led operation as cops swooped at two convenience stores in the city.
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00:00So this is a vehicle that's not insured yet, while the officer is dealing with this, we're
00:25going to have them go into the premises without concern.
00:31Can I leave this with you for a second then, Ben, yeah?
00:34Who's in charge?
00:35You must have a name who's in charge.
00:36If they want to go to...
00:37Give me the name.
00:38Who's in charge?
00:39Let me see who's outside, man.
00:40I'm asking who's in charge.
00:41Let me see who's outside.
00:42Someone, turn around.
00:43Oi!
00:44Oi!
00:45We've also got illicit tobacco.
00:46It hasn't got the markings on it.
00:47It's abroad in Australia.
00:48That's been imported.
00:49Nitrous oxide.
00:50So, according to the intel we received, this is a vehicle that's not insured yet, while
00:51the officer is dealing with this, we're going to have them go into the premises without
00:52concern.
00:53Can I leave this with you for a second then, Ben, yeah?
00:54Who's in charge?
00:55You must have a name who's in charge.
00:56Who's in charge?
00:57You must have a name who's in charge.
00:58Who's in charge?
00:59Who's in charge?
01:00Who's in charge?
01:01Who's in charge?
01:02Who's in charge?
01:03Who's in charge?
01:04Who's in charge?
01:05Who's in charge?
01:06Who's in charge?
01:07Who's in charge?
01:08Nitrous oxide.
01:09So, according to the intel we received, we've got nitrous oxide, illicit tobacco, and loads
01:15of apes.
01:16Obviously, it's linked to anti-social behaviour.
01:17And we're going to clamp down hard on these traders.
01:18So, we're just going to have a look around, what else we can find.
01:19Obviously, we've got our colleagues upstairs.
01:20We'll go up there and have a look, and then have a look around the shop and go and have
01:21a look at the other shops as well.
01:22Sitting behind the counter.
01:23We've got the illicit apes here.
01:24We've got, like, two of them.
01:25We've got two of them.
01:26We've got two of them.
01:27We've got two of them.
01:28We've got two of them.
01:29We've got two of them.
01:30We've got two of them.
01:32If they haven't been put through the right sort of testing, then you just don't know
01:57what's in there.
01:58So, there is a risk to public health.
02:00Obviously we'll send these off, the counterfeit ones, to the trademark holders, they'll give us a statement, then we'll take further action.
02:06Obviously with premises like this, we'll do this raid, tomorrow they'll be stocked up again, so basically the sort of approach we're going to try to take is looking at disclosure orders or actually prosecuting them.
02:18Because obviously the public don't want this sort of stuff being sold.
02:22What else we've got is snuff products, smokeless tobacco, they're not supposed to be selling these, they've got no health warnings on them, nothing at all.
02:31These have been imported, clearly from Pakistan or Afghanistan, £4,000 plus, we've got £18,000, I think there's £15,000 as well somewhere.
02:46Unauthorised sex pills, Viagra-type, Viagra-style type pills, these are absolutely dangerous these are, because these haven't been tested or anything, yeah?
03:07And if someone's got a bad heart condition using these, these are dangerous.
03:47We've got Triger, yeah?
03:51Do you want to take pictures of them? That's all snuff which is not allowed to be distributed in the UK market, it comes from Afghanistan, they're not, they haven't been tested, they're not in need to have more than 600, there's a load of things in the actual stuff.
04:12Do you want to take a picture of all of them?
04:25I've done loads of police work, I've never been a trained police officer, I've reported like I got a press release and then just like locked in shame and reported it, but I've never actually been in court.