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.
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.
"The mystery is now solved from textual, chemical, and codicological (bookmaking) angles," said Mitchell, who first became intrigued by the codex when she saw it as a graduate student in 1982.
JACKSON, Miss. -- Four people were arrested Tuesday after Hinds County sheriff's investigators said they found them printing fake money in a Jackson motel.
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A man was arrested in Lake County for faking bills as small as $1. The man was caught trying to pass the fake cash at a Tavares gas station and didn't get away before police came.
Four people were arrested at the factory which was distributing illicit condoms nationwide that provided little or no protection and carried the risk of both pregnancy and disease.
Not sure what it should cost to restore ones reputation and standing in the community, but Target, or Target's Agent, made a big mistake. Check your facts.
It turns out the phony Ferrari, that tour de force of fakery whipped up recently in a Thai backstreet garage (with a Subaru engine, alas), isn't here. But there's a counterfeit Yamaha scooter in mint condition propped up on its stand.
A woman from Jericho has launched a $500,000 lawsuit against the Long Island Rail Road and Metropolitan Transportation Authority cops, claiming she was held for more than three hours after a conductor wrongfully accused her of using a counterfeit ticket.
If you haven't been keeping tabs on clean coal's latest swindle, this should make you shudder. Not only is clean coal the epitome of an oxymoron, the picture it paints of its represented industry is downright false. Show me one active commercial scale clean coal plant.
With a number of states reporting huge seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs), India will soon take up the issue at global fora, like Interpol, in a big way and will also ask some European countries to keep a watch on importers of currency-standard printing paper and i …
One week after the apparent suicide of a Chinese factory worker accused of stealing a carefully guarded Apple iPhone prototype, one question remains unanswered: what happened to the missing phone?
Counterfeiters who already earn money from fake Swiss watches and army knives have now turned to making a business out of fake Swiss rubbish bags.
The Supreme Court has refused to hear arguments from a Wal-Mart cashier who said the fake money she agreed to take from counterfeiters was so poorly made
On Saturday, six people were arrested and accused of selling counterfeit DVD'S.
$134 billion in U.S. Treasury bills found in a suitcase are "most probably counterfeit, the latest handiwork of the Italian Mafia."
It used to be that spotting a "good" counterfeit bill was impossible for ordinary people. If it was good enough to pass the "look and feel" test, then it was going to take an ultra-violet light or a magnetic ink detector.
On March 30, 2009, the US Treasury Department announced that $134.5 billion remained in its Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP].
Two Japanese nationals were detained by Italian financial police last week after trying to enter Switzerland with $134 billion worth of undeclared U.S. bonds, mostly Treasury bonds, an Italian daily said Wednesday.
Radioactive material flung into the atmosphere by nuclear bomb tests is helping scientists to fight the multi-million pound trade in counterfeit antique malt whisky.
Before a federal raid, bargain hunters at the Old Paris Flea Market in Oklahoma City could buy counterfeit DVDs of movies still in theaters if they went to the right booth, court records show. "Everybody knew it," said one seller, Tim Hearns.
Who would ripoff pint-sized Girl Scouts? That's what the girls in Troop 40411 in Bremerton, Wash., are asking after a scammer used counterfeit $20 bills to buy cookies from them, according to report by King5 News in Seattle.
The forgers printed more than £5 million worth of almost faultless fake £20 and 50 Euro notes from the front room of Dennis Hancox's house in Chiswick, south west London.
Excerpt: Nayshamish Hampton tried buying $1,200 in merchandise from Walmart using a counterfeit check, Plant City police say.
But the 61-year-old may be left needing a "get out of jail" card after a second attempt to exchange the toy cash backfired.