Port Elizabeth Police have confiscated tobacco liquid to the street value of R360 000 at warehouse in Kabega Park.
This is after a courier company alerted them of a suspicious package at their warehouse on Thursday.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu said the company received a package from Cape Town.
It is alleged that a similar package was received for the same person earlier in the week and the suspicious behaviour of the recipient caught the attention of the company.
When another package arrived on Thursday for the same person, police were roped in to investigate. The package was opened and 30 boxes each containing 120 packets of various flavours of oka pipe liquid tobacco were confiscated. The total street value is R180 000.
At about 17:30, the same evening , police returned to the company as another package arrived. Another 30 boxes of the same liquid tobacco were confiscated. The total value of both confiscations is R360 000.
Colonel Naidu said a docket has been opened for further investigation.
Police have lauded the courier company for working with them in clamping down the movement of illegal and illicit merchandise.
