Monday, July 27 2009
By Carol Robinson --
Birmingham News
Investigators seized thousands of counterfeit cigars, many labeled as Swisher Sweets.
Jefferson County sheriff's deputies say they have busted a cigar-counterfeiting ring that flooded the Southeast with look-alike cigars.
The ring, operated by men in Homewood and McCalla, imported hundreds of thousands of cheap and uninspected counterfeit cigars from China and India, repackaged them and distributed them across the region as if they were name brands.
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