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Two Polish men have been sentenced to a total of four years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle approximately 30 kilos of herbal cannabis and half a kilo of cannabis resin into the UK.

A Lithuanian lorry driver has been sentenced to 7 years in prison at Canterbury Crown Court on 12 October after pleading guilty to smuggling 4-Methoxymethylamphetamine, also known as PMMA which is a class A drug.

Two men have been sentenced to a total of 20 years for attempting to smuggle approximately 6 kilograms of heroin into the UK via the Channel tunnel.

Opium weighing approximately seven and a half pounds has been seized by Border Agency officers at Dover.

UK Border Agency officers in Dover have caught a coach load of passengers from Leicester red-handed as they tried to bring almost 300 kg of tobacco into the country.

More than a tonne of tobacco has been found by customs officers in the back of a lorry at Dover Docks at the weekend.

Customs Officers have seized more than four million counterfeit cigarettes which were found hidden in a lorry arriving at Dover on Tuesday (26 January).

Eight hand guns and 200 rounds of ammunition  were found by customs officers hidden inside a lorry arriving at Dover.
 

A lorry driver who attempted to smuggle almost six million cigarettes into the UK through the Port of Dover has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

A foreign driver has been arrested after more than four million cigarettes were found in a lorry at Dover.