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Rest Easy: Cops Confiscate Millions In Fake Designer Handbags
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Garth Johnston
Published Nov 10, 2011
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Thank goodness! The NYPD, working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have today announced they've made us all a little bit safer by removing $3.5 million dollars worth of counterfeit handbags from circulation. Michael Kors and Tory Burch must be so relieved!
Cops say that they raided La La Fashion yesterday and seized tens of thousands of fake luxury purses and wallets that had been imported from China and were going to be sold on the streets of Chinatown as well as on the company's, still active, website. Jeff Xia, 48, Gou Yin Ye, 62, Xhi Feng Chen, 29, Cheng W. Wang, 37, Bin Bin Jin, 27, and Yan Qun Hu, 40, were all charged with trademark counterfeiting. We are sure we will all sleep easier now.
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