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A plane passenger was caught in the act trying to smuggle more than 83,000 cigarettes into Newcastle International Airport.
Samuel Onyemenam, 50, was stopped while carrying luggage as he entered the country on flight from Nigeria via Germany last November.
Border Force officers x-rayed three of the suitcases and found that two of them were filled with 83,600 cigarettes, which would have carried duty worth £28,000.
Onyemenam, of Abbey Wood, London, was arrested and pleaded guilty to fraudulently evading duty when he appeared in the dock this week.
Samuel Onyemenam, 50, (pictured) was stopped by Border Force while carrying luggage as he entered the country on flight from Nigeria via Germany. Officers X-rayed three of the suitcases and found that two of them were filled with 83,600 cigarettes, which would have carried
