Au­thor­i­ties have seized more than 2,700 il­lic­it and un­safe items dur­ing a ma­jor an­ti-il­lic­it trade op­er­a­tion in South Oropouche, un­der­scor­ing the scale of il­le­gal goods cir­cu­lat­ing in lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

The ini­tia­tive, code-named “DUN­WICH 5/2026”, was car­ried out on Wednes­day by of­fi­cers of the South Oropouche Po­lice Dis­trict in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mul­ti­ple state agen­cies. In­ves­ti­ga­tors con­fis­cat­ed 1,016 un­reg­is­tered male en­hance­ment and as­sort­ed phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal prod­ucts, 940 il­lic­it cig­a­rettes, 470 un­cer­ti­fied elec­tri­cal and con­sumer items, and 320 coun­ter­feit brand-name cloth­ing ar­ti­cles.

The first raid oc­curred around 11:20 a.m. at a su­per­mar­ket along South­ern Main Road, where coun­ter­feit cloth­ing, cel­lu­lar ac­ces­sories, de­fec­tive im­port­ed match­es, and un­reg­is­tered phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals were found. Of­fi­cials al­so iden­ti­fied elec­tri­cal, fire, and oc­cu­pa­tion­al safe­ty breach­es. The pro­pri­etor was warned and or­dered to cor­rect the de­fi­cien­cies with­in a set time­frame.