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Troops may get drug felon's stogies 

Jump to full article: Detroit (MI) News, 2008-03-14
Author: Mike Martindale / The Detroit News

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Cigar-smoking Michigan military people in the Middle East may soon be puffing away at seized stogies, courtesy of the Oakland County Narcotics Enforcement Team.

Drug officers seized 1,500 hand-wrapped cigars during a traffic stop of a convicted drug felon in January along M-59 in eastern Oakland County. The cigars, which include counterfeit copies of much-coveted and embargoed Cuban cigars, were obtained under forfeiture laws. Now Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard hopes to ship them off to Michigan troops.

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