Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Save to Read Later Staff Sgt. Brian Partridge with the Brandon Police Service Crime Division and Ron Bell, supervisor with Manitoba Finance Taxation Special Services Investigations Unit, address the media at the BPS headquarters on Wednesday about the illegal tobacco and marijuana that were seized recently during a joint agency investigation. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun) Approximately one million contraband cigarettes, 53 pounds of cannabis and more than $25,000 in cash were seized from a property in the RM of Whitehead last week after a six-week investigation carried out jointly by the Brandon Police Service and Manitoba Finance’s Taxation Special Services Investigation Unit.