When officials shut down a vape shop in England for selling illegal goods, you'd think the story would end there. 

Not quite — and you have to almost admire the nerve. 

According to BBC News, the shop just reopened under a new name, Cloudy Vape Ltd., and the owners apparently watched a few too many spy movies. They built secret, high-tech compartments to hide their stash. 

We're talking large metal platforms, the size of a dining table, that rose from the basement on hydraulic lifts — the kind of thing you'd see in a movie.

Officers were stumped, so they brought in the ultimate low-tech countermeasure: a dog's nose.

Meet Rookie, a cocker spaniel who works with Specialist K9's Limited. 

Rookie is a tobacco detection dog, and he's exactly who you call when a high-tech hydraulic lift is no match for a good old-fashioned sniff. While the human officers searched, Rookie got to work and immediately flagged the hidden kitchen compartments. 

He's a professional, and he comes from a team of them. His organization, Specialist K9's, provides Home Office-approved dog teams, and it's run by people who know this world inside and out. 

Chris Conneely is a 30-year veteran of the police force and a former dog instructor. His partner, Kerry Hodder, got her start working with Trading Standards and her own tobacco-detection dog.

Rookie's powerful nose led officers straight to the jackpot. The team uncovered 706 packets of cigarettes, 420 illegal vapes, and 70 pouches of illicit tobacco. 

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The total street value was estimated at about £16,000 ($21,000). It was a massive win for the community, all thanks to a dog who just wanted to find the thing he was trained to find.

This was also a huge deal for the neighborhood. Council official John Baker was furious, and he didn't mince words. 

"The scale of concealment and repeated offending shows a blatant disregard for the law. Closure orders such as this send a strong message that we will not tolerate the sale of illicit tobacco and vapes in our communities," Baker fumed, according to the BBC.

It's a perfect example of how effective local action can be — and while the main point was getting dangerous, unregulated products out of the hands of minors, there was another benefit. 

Disposable vapes are an environmental nightmare, full of plastic and lithium-ion batteries that end up in landfills.

Rookie's job was finding tobacco, but his K9 colleagues are trained to detect far more, including explosives, drugs, pyrotechnics, and spiking substances. 

It's all part of the organization's core mission: "Giving our clients the peace of mind knowing they are getting the very best Canine Search Teams available, helping to keep their clients, visitors, sites, and venues safe."

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