Half a Million Potentially Illegal Vapes Seized in Melbourne

Published on April 23, 2024

Close to half a million vapes have been seized as part of a joint operation by Victorian Police and the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Officers searched a Lennon St warehouse in West Melbourne on April 17 and discovered the vapes, which have a street value estimated at more than $15 million (US$9.7 million). The find is the largest detection of potentially unlawful vapes in a single joint operation, and the penalty for importation is a maximum of five years imprisonment and/or a fine of $1,252,000. Two 20-year-old Melbourne men, a 37-year-old Point Cook man, a 31-year-old Southbank man, a 33-year-old Adelaide man, and a 24-year-old man of no fixed abode were arrested by police as part of Taskforce Lunar’s ongoing investigations into organised crime in the illicit tobacco market....

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