ILLEGAL pills, drugs, vapes and cigarettes are among hundreds of items that have been seized following a raid at a shop in Wolverhampton.

Police in Wolverhampton, accompanied by the Wolverhampton Council’s Trading Standards team, inspected the Health Town store on Cannock Road after reports that illegal items were being sold.

As well as tobacco, vapes, cigarettes and cash, suspected illegal Viagra and Tramadol tablets were seized as well as illegal shisha and suspected cannabis.

The Heath Town store was just one of three shops visited on Monday, November 18 as part of an operation to stop antisocial behaviour.

Seizures were also made at a shop on Wednesfield Road and on Dudley Road, Graiseley, where a further 9,000 illegal vapes were found behind a locked toilet door and inside the shop owner’s car.

Footage from all three raids shows police kicking down doors to get to stashes of prohibited products, assisted by sniffer dog, Griff from B.W.Y Canine.

Wolverhampton Police are working with the council to target shops where people had told trading standards that staff were selling to underage customers.

Police have not yet made arrests in connection to the operation, which is still ongoing and being led by council staff.

Councillor Zee Russell, chair of the council’s Statutory Licensing Committee and Regulatory Committee said: “Days like this show us why it is so important to keep speaking to our community and respond to their reports.

“We don’t know what these shops are selling to our children, and the imported prescription drugs could be extremely harmful or even fatal.”

Sargent Nicola Sephton, from Wolverhampton Police, added: “Antisocial behaviour can often be fuelled by drink, drugs and other items that shops sell illegally or irresponsibly.

“I’m glad that we’ve been able to act on the information local people provided to get these items off the streets.”

The illegal substances seized will be destroyed.