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keeping with the theme: Police bust yields $100k in fakes!!!!
Police bust yields $100K in fake designer clothes
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
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June 14, 2007, 8:01 AM EDT
Undercover police officers, following a hunch, found a room full of hundreds of pairs of fake designer shoes, jeans and shirts at an abandoned building in Uniondale on Wednesday night, and arrested two men for counterfeiting, the Nassau police said.
The knockoff items included Nike and Bathing Ape sneakers, Blue Cult and True Religion denim jeans, Ed Hardy t-shirts and Lids baseball caps. Police estimated the value of the merchandise at $100,000.
Two Hempstead Village residents, Christopher Diaz, 34, of 170 Ingraham Blvd., and Lucius Williams, 36, of 109 Robinwood Ave., were arrested at 9:20 p.m. Wednesday and charged with first-degree counterfeiting.
The three plain clothes officers were on patrol when they noticed a man walking down a driveway at a vacant former food market, at 624 Jerusalem Ave. in Uniondale. The officers stopped their car and followed the man because they thought he might be planning to break into the building.
Instead, as the officers were walking down the alley they saw Diaz open a door to the building, and saw Williams in the room along with stacks of shoes and clothing, the Nassau police said.
The officers asked Williams and Diaz if they owned the building, and the men said they were renting the room to sell the shoes and clothing. The officers inspected the items and determined that they were fake, and made the arrests.
The plain clothes officers had been on patrol as part of the Nassau First Precinct's Community Response Unit, and they had been on the lookout for potential burglary incidents due to crime trends in the precinct, the police said.
Williams and Diaz were scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at First District Court, Hempstead.
Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.
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