Feds Bust Huge Counterfeit Shoe/Viagra Smuggling Ring

Fulton Mall shelves may be bare this summer since in Baltimore feds have seized 120,000 pairs of fake Nikes, along with counterfeit Coach and Gucci-brand stuff, Cartier watches and Viagra pills bound for Brooklyn. For smuggling and money laundering they've charged three U.S. citizens along with four partners from China and two from Malaysia, where the goods were manufactured. The AP says that, to avoid paying import duties, the smuggling ring had merchandise delivered to New York and New Jersey, transacting in cash and wiring money to Asia. Officials also seized fake Ugg, Adidas, Versace and Ralph Lauren items. Undercover officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who've been working on the case since 2008, infiltrated the operation and made their arrests last week.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on March 22, 2010 5:52 PM

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only to realize that many of the shoes sold on ebay are purchased by China and the new copies are false, all the shoes of this type are cheap, do not forget that if the price seems too good to be true, it usually is. Donny

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jaycjay

Shoe viagra is the reason my feet are so big.

citylion

Ah, yes. The good old shoe/viagra under the table deal in a factory some where.

Some scheming capitalists just cried a little, died a little last week over this somewhere.

Gotham Extremist

Damn no more cheap Jordans. This will only mean more violence over the summer for shoe related crime.

Thespis

I don't know -- could counterfeit Uggs possibly look any worse than real Uggs?

There is nothing nastier than an otherwise attractive woman wearing those awful beige Uggs -- inevitably stained to hell by all sorts of road dirt and other crap. Really, what's the point of getting dressed up if you're going to finish off the outfit with peed-on house shoes?

hecks

lol, I have to laugh at the ones who wear them during temperate weather. I'm always tempted to say "Either your feet are reallly susceptible to the cold or you are expecting a blizzard?"

yamon

This might explain why the ports were closed last Wednesday - that or they were just celebrating shamrock tomfoolery.

babyhitler

so now poor people won't look blatantly obvious trying to look rich even though everyone can tell what they just bought a knockoff, they'll just look poor.

Guest

courterfeit viagra? that borders on desperation.

JenChungsNewBra

@Donny

this is Ghotamist not Angielist

Donny Darton

just to warn also that many of these shoes sold on ebay are also bought from china and are again fake copies, any shoes like this that are cheap then remember that if the price seems to good to be true then it usually is. Donny