ICE, CBP Seize Over $19.5 Million in Fake Pro Sports Goods
A year-long collaboration between CBP and ICE Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Postal Service and other law enforcement resulted in seizures of some 325,000 fake professional sports items, said ICE in a press release (here). The effort, called Operation Team…
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Player, began after the last Super Bowl, said ICE. "Special agents from HSI and officers with CBP worked with sports leagues and law enforcement agencies throughout the nation to identify illegal shipments imported into the U.S., as well as stores and vendors selling counterfeit trademarked items," it said. There's been 52 related arrests so far, the agency said.