Police Blotter
A Houston couple, Zhuo Min Xie and Hsiu Chu Chu, were indicted by a grand jury April 18 on charges of conspiracy and trafficking in fake designer goods, reports the San Antonio Express News. According to the report, the couple has already forfeited more than 11,000 counterfeit purses, handbags, wallets and other items, as well as about half of $700,923 that was seized by the government in 2005, in a civil forfeiture proceeding.
Deputy Sheriffs in Mobile County, Alabama seized counterfeit merchandise valued at around $250,000 yesterday, including fake Nike shoes, Ralph Lauren Polo shirts and pirated DVDs from two Urban Unlimited stores, reports the Mobile Press-Register.
The Herald Sun reported last Sunday that Australian Customs officials in Adelaide found a large shipment of weapons and counterfeit goods in a sea cargo shipment from China April 5. The confiscated shipment included 197 nunchakus, 100 extendable steel batons, 831 BB guns, a large quantity of BB pellets, 665 tins of counterfeit trading cards, 480 fake pocket mirrors, 360 fake backpacks and 1,166 stationery items. Among the fake brands were Yu-Gi-Oh!, Disney, Hello Kitty, Mattel and Nickelodeon.