Officials from the California Department of Labor were recently conducting an investigation of a sewing factory in the City of Los Angeles. The officials were at the location investigating labor issues when the very observant officials noticed that the factory was making name brand jeans. This seemed very suspicious and rightfully so. The official had recently received our IP Crimes newsletter.
Investigative Consultants was contacted and determined that the factory was in fact involved in the manufacturing of counterfeit jeans. This is a great find, as a majority of counterfeit jeans are now being made outside of the United states.
LAPD responded to the location and arrested the owners of the location, who were a husband and wife team. The sewing factory had several sewing machines and had the capability to make thousands of counterfeit jeans on a weekly basis. LAPD recovered several hundred pairs of completed jeans, along with thousands of counterfeit buttons, labels, tags, rivets, and other items. The owners of the location claimed that the jeans were “dropped off” by some unknown person and they were just being nice and sewing the jeans together for the unknown man. Not a very believable story. Way to keep your eyes open!!!
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