ICE agents based in New Orleans investigated vendors and confiscated more than 1,400 counterfeit hats, t-shirts and jerseys worth approximately $210,000. While most of the merchandise included faked NFL gear, counterfeit NBA, MLB and NASCAR products were also seized along with bogus Duracell batteries and John Deere products.
"Counterfeiters and criminal organizations around the world will continue to face extreme scrutiny from ICE," said Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., special agent in charge of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations Office in New Orleans, in a statement. "In particular, vendors who sell counterfeit goods to unsuspecting sports fans will be held accountable. These vendors sell inferior items tarnishing the reputation of trademark holders like the NFL. Not only do these items hurt the trademark holder, counterfeit goods cost U.S. industries billions of dollars in losses each year and potentially threaten our national security."
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