Detroit police say they've confiscated about $700,000 worth of counterfeit big-brand clothing and apparel during two raids.
All counterfeit products are illegal. But counterfeit electronics are not just illegal, they are dangerous.
Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized more than 17,000 counterfeit items from Twin Cities-area businesses last week, cracking down on the sale of fake goods before the holiday shopping season begins.
Colombian authorities say they have seized $19 million in forged U.S. currency so far this year, five times the amount confiscated last year.
A Wyoming man has been charged with counterfeiting money to pay an exotic dancer for a private performance. Rickey A. Kempter, 50, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Federal authorities have recovered a counterfeit copy of a 1939 watercolor by artist Andrew Wyeth.
Law enforcement officials and business owners across the country say they have seen a significant spike in the circulation of counterfeit currency since the economy started to sour.
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Police have arrested a man for trying to pass a fake $100 bill at McDonald's, leading to a find of $16,000 more in counterfeit C-notes. Police said the man was arrested Monday after an employee at McDonald's reported someone trying to pass a counterfeit $100 bill. A preliminary investigation led police to find $6,200 in counterfeit $100s in his possession.
Federal prosecutors have charged two men with conspiring to sell counterfeit video slot machines bearing the name of Reno-based International Game Technology.
Police in Washington state say they've captured three people who bought Girl Scout cookies with counterfeit $20 bills. Troop 40411 leader KC Gettings says she went to a bank Saturday to get change and was told she had two counterfeit $20 bills.
NFL jerseys of almost every team were crammed into Junior Raphael Prentice's flea market booth. He had the Steelers, Cardinals, even an old Green Bay Packers jersey from Hall of Famer Reggie White — with the name "White" upside down on the back.
TAMPA, Fla. - The contraband lie in heaps on the floor, piled there by more than a dozen federal and local law enforcement officials. The haul's street value was pegged at $500,000, but authorities said that’s just a drop in the bucket on this front of the never-ending war on crime.
Every time I give a talk on the luxury business today and I get to the subject of counterfeiting, the same thing happens. The room grows absolutely silent as I put forth the facts: It is estimated that up to 7 percent of our annual world trade — $600 billion worth — is counterfeit or pirated; that fakes are believed to be directly responsible for the loss of more than 750,000 American jobs; that everything from baby formula to medicine is counterfeited, with tragic results; that counterfeiters and the crime syndicates they work with deal in human trafficking, child labor and gang warfare; and that counterfeiting is used to launder money, and the money has been linked to truly sinister deeds such as terrorism.
Ten tons of chocolate bonbons could stuff a lot of stockings this holiday season — but instead they will be under the lock and key of French customs agents.
Phony coyotes set up to discourage ducks and geese from gobbling up seeds and fresh shoots from wetlands plants didn't fool the fowl, but humans were another matter. Hammond Port Authority Director Milan Kruszynski said his office has fielded several calls from passing motorists who mistook the two-dimensional cutouts on islands in Wolf Lake for dogs.
A former Bethlehem woman will serve up to 23 months in prison for having her 7-year-old son dress as a Cub Scout to collect money for a nonexistent cause.
Police and prosecutors on Long Island say they've seized $25 million in counterfeit Nike sneakers and other trademark knockoffs. Two men linked to the operation have been arrested.
Police say it was no surprise a bogus $50 bill got a Long Island man arrested: He was trying to use it to pay his bail on a traffic charge. The transaction compounded Cyheam Forney's legal problems and landed him in jail.
A counterfeiting ring stole U.S. Treasury checks from cargo at Newark Liberty International Airport, created sophisticated copies and cashed $2 million worth of bogus paper, federal authorities said Wednesday.
Police raided a major hub for counterfeit goods in Chinatown on Tuesday, seizing more than $1 million of fake Gucci, Prada, Fendi, Rolex and Coach merchandise. The two-month probe by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Office of Special Enforcement focused on an area of downtown Manhattan that has long been notorious for the wide array of knockoffs for sale on the street.
A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and trying to use the computer there to make counterfeit money.
A pizzeria owner has been accused of making his own dough, counterfeit money, in a room behind the oven. Police said Wednesday that they found $6,000 in fake bills, along with printing equipment and cutting devices, in a back office at The Brick Oven Pizza Shop, near the village Police Department.
Authorities seized nearly 160,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike sneakers and arrested six people accused of selling fake purses, software and other items worth more than $7 million, prosecutors said Thursday.
China's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water.