Cops catch driver smuggling $10K load of untaxed cigarettes

A U-Haul driver was caught tr🐼ying to smuggle $10,000 in illegal ꧃cigarettes into Queens on Sunday, law-enforcement sources said.

The stash was hidden in moving boxes, sources 🎃said.

Bridge and Tunnel cops stopped the van’s driver, Kofi Amankwah, 27, at a checkpoint at the Manhattan entrance to the Queens Midtown Tunnel around 2 p.m. and discovered the 600 cartons of Newport cigarettes from Virginia, sources said.

Amankwah allegedly told the officers he didn’t know the conte𝔉nts of the nearly dozen moving boxes and that he had transported them from Mꦆaryland.

But when officers inspected the truck’s cargo, they found that the cartons were marked ꧟with a tax stamp from Virginia, where cigarettes cost three to four times less than New York, sources said.

Amankwah was chargﷺed with felony posse🐷ssion with the intent to sell untaxed cigarettes.