Fake Sports Merchandise Seizure Operation Team Player
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security
Investigations (HSI) seized more than 176,000 counterfeit
sports-related items, worth an estimated $123 million (MSRP),
through a collaborative enforcement operation targeting
international shipments of counterfeit merchandise into the United
States through Miami, Florida in January 2020.
The seizures were part of Operation Team Player, an ongoing effort
developed by the HSI-led Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Center
to target the illegal importation and distribution of counterfeit
sports merchandise, and were revealed in Miami, Florida, at a joint
press conference with the National Football League (NFL), HSI, CBP
and the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD).
It was a record-breaking seizure
operation.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement video by
Charles Reed Edit by USA Patriotism
