A gang of criminals is waylaying trucks delivering tobacco to auction floors and stealing bales while the vehicles are in motion.
This revelation comes after police arrested two people - one of the thieves and a buyer - after raiding a house in the Hopley area where they recovered several bales of tobacco believed to have been stolen from different farmers using the same method.
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