A lone policeman from Omili Police Station in Lae, with community leaders, conducted a walk through Nawaeb Block all the way to Kamkumung settlement when they approached suspicious movement of people in the area.
The group, upon realising that it was police, dropped some of the cartons they were carrying and made a run for it.
Police and the community went through the area and retrieved up to 80 cartons of counterfeit Pall Mall red cigarettes.
