Sept. 29 (UPI) — U.S. border agents in Minnesota spotted and seized a million-dollar shipment of more than 100,000 illegal Chinese vape products destined to a California nicotine wholesaler.
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area recently uncovered and later took control over scores of pallets that contained vaping items, including some 90,000 illicit Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems products and 75,000 refill cartridges.
“The excellent intelligence sharing helped our officers identify and intercept these shipments that could potentially harm the health and wellbeing of people within our communities,” according to LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke, field operations director at CBP’s Chicago office…