Ho, ho, ho - Uncle Sam may have "Grinched" your Cuban cigars

Friday, December 17 2010

Bob Woods (Cigar Examiner) | examiner.com National

Just in time for the holidays.

Recent seizures of 100,000 actual and suspected Cuban cigars by U.S. Customs officials at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport may effectively close one of the easier routes to bring illegal habanos into the U.S. What's more, this particular path even saw the cigars being directly delivered to one’s door.

Customs and Border Protection’s Chicago field office seized the large amount of the prized stogies earlier this month. The cigars came into the U.S. through O’Hare, mainly as shipments from European tobacconists who sold the cigars to individuals in the U.S. via the Internet, officials said. The alleged recipients of the shipments will be investigated, the feds also said.