Just a reminder to know your source

[Gavin]

Miami Man Arrested With Counterfeit Packaging for More Than $1 Million of Cuban Cigars

As part of a separate retail theft investigation, from the back of a store in Miami, police seized thousands of bands for Cuban brands such as Bolívar, Cohiba, Cohiba BHK, Cuaba, Hoyo de Monterrey, Montecristo, Partagás, Quai d'Orsay, Romeo y Julieta and Trinidad.

halfwheel.com

 

[tomthirtysix]

COUNTERFEIT PACKAGING FOR MORE THAN $1 MILLION OF CUBAN CIGARS

So, one box?

 

[Scap]

That's just lazy math in the article.
4,499 empty boxes times 25 =112,475

112,475 * $10 = $1,124,750.

With the double and triple banded dollar gobblers that could be >3x the amount reported.