Article: Corinna, Maine, Leather Company Thrives Making Badge Cases.

By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 18--CORINNA, Maine -- The moment always is dramatic: The cop on television flips open his leather bi-fold and reveals his shield. The arrest is accomplished.

Or the detectives are huddled at a murder scene, leather shield cases with their shining badges hanging from their necks or clipped to their waistbands.

They are visible on all the popular cop movies and television shows: "24," "NYPD Blue," "Law And Order," "CSI."

One of central Maine's best-kept secrets, however, is that these badge and shield cases, along with a dozen other police ...

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