08/20/2008 01:24:21 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES—Federal authorities say they have seized nearly 80,000 phony handbags with various labels as they arrived from China at the Port of Los Angeles.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents said Tuesday that the six containers of contraband had been marked for search before they arrived.
Customs spokeswoman Cristina Gamez says the value of the items seized on Monday was $1.9 million, and would have been an estimated $32 million if the brand names on them were legitimate.
Gamez says three of the containers were headed to Orange County and three to Los Angeles County.
Authorities did not release the name of the shipper or the recipients of the goods because their investigation is continuing.
LOS ANGELES—Federal authorities say they have seized nearly 80,000 phony handbags with various labels as they arrived from China at the Port of Los Angeles.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents said Tuesday that the six containers of contraband had been marked for search before they arrived.
Customs spokeswoman Cristina Gamez says the value of the items seized on Monday was $1.9 million, and would have been an estimated $32 million if the brand names on them were legitimate.
Gamez says three of the containers were headed to Orange County and three to Los Angeles County.
Authorities did not release the name of the shipper or the recipients of the goods because their investigation is continuing.
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