Federal Officials Raid Gibson Guitar Factories In Tennessee, Bozeman Plant Could Be Next
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- On Wednesday, agents with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the FBI hit Gibson Guitar factories in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee.
Gibson officials in Bozeman tell us the agents confiscated all of the Indian Rosewood, the wood used to make fingerboards for their guitars, as well as a number of computer files.
According to the Department of Justice, there's a question over whether the wood was cut and shipped illegally from India.
Bozeman factory manager, Dennis O'Brien, says all the wood is legal.
