About 6.6 million unstamped cigarettes worth an estimated $3.3 million were seized recently by members of the Saskatchewan Highway Patrol and the RCMP. On March 1st, on Highway 1 east of Indian Head, an officer with the Ministry of Corrections, Policing and Public Safety’s Provincial Protective Services Branch stopped a commercial vehicle. A news release from the Ministry says during a roadside check, the officer conducted a search of the trailer where 22 pallets of illegal cigarettes were found.

The driver and passenger, both from Ontario, were taken into custody and the cigarettes and semi were seized. The Indian Head RCMP continue to investigate.