Police say they received a call about someone trespassing on the Collins Bay Institution grounds around 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Authorities say the province stood to lose $261,000 in tax revenue if these cigarettes had been sold.

The packages contained tobacco, drugs, cellphones, SIM and SD cards and phone chargers, officials say.

The same individual was arrested in 2016 with 6,000 cigarettes and in May 2020 with 18,400 cigarettes.

Service Nova Scotia says it has seized around 600,000 illegal cigarettes since July 1 this year.

Warkworth Institution officials say a package containing contraband tobacco, marijuana and shatter was seized on Oct. 23.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of contraband was seized at the Stony Mountain Institution this week.

The contraband seized included tobacco, drugs, cellphones, SIM cards and USBs.

On Sept. 16, police in Brandon announced they had seized more than 3.5 million illegal cigarettes in a trailer believed to be returning from Ontario.

Brandon, Man., police say a joint investigation between authorities in Ontario and Manitoba culminated in four arrests and the seizure of over 3.5 million cigarettes.