Authorities say they can link the pair and their particular technique to several jewelry store scams in Dallas, Oklahoma, and right here in Shreveport!
The origin of the custom of wearing a ring to indicate one is married can be traced back to Egypt 6,000 years ago. The modern tradition of a dual wedding ring exchange during the marriage ceremony began in the Middle Ages in Europe. In the United States, it was traditional that only wives wore wedding rings until husbands started wearing them, too, sometime in the last century...
If you're wearing a Molex watch right now, wearing Reebuck shoes, and can't wait to get home to watch TV on your brand new high definition Sorny . . . then you're part of this problem.
According to Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection, hundreds of millions of dollars of counterfeit goods are sold in this country every year . . . some of which fund criminal activities and organized cri