A 56-year-old Eltham man has been arrested and charged after police seized 1154 vapes at a retail business in Eltham on 6 July.
Police raided the Pitt Street shop after reports of vapes allegedly being sold to underage persons at the premises.
The vapes are typically sold for $25 each, putting the combined value of the seizure at almost $30,000.
The unnamed man was arrested and charged with the alleged illegal sale of vapes to underage persons, failing to hold an appropriate licence to sell nicotine vapes and unauthorised supply of nicotine vapes.
The man was released on bail to appear before Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court on 6 October.