SHOES, SUNGLASSES, AND PERFUMES???

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, COPS Bureau has become very active in pursuing counterfeiting and piracy cases. Sergeant Sandecki and his team from COPS Bureau recently wrapped up a major investigation involving the sales, distribution, and manufacturing of counterfeit merchandise. Sandecki’s case involved a subject that was importing blank sunglasses into the United States from China. Once the subject received the sunglasses here, the subject would have the sunglasses printed with the counterfeit trademarks. The subject was operating from a warehouse in Santa Fe Springs, California and was having the sunglasses printed in a small apartment in Los Angeles.

Sergeant Sandecki obtained a search warrant for both locations. The warrants were served simultaneously and multiple subjects involved in the operation were arrested. Sandecki and his team recovered counterfeit shoes, sunglasses, and perfumes valued at over $ 3,000,000. One of the subjects was found to be a documented violent gang member, who had been previously deported from the United States. ICE was called to the scene to assist LASD. ICE took custody of the subject, who will now be spending some quiet time in a federal prison. Nice team effort.

By Investigative Consultants