BY RACQUEL PORTER Observer staff reporter porterr@jamaicaobserver.com Friday, December 22, 2017
A Chinese national was arrested and charged after $10 million worth of counterfeit items were seized at a store in Montego Bay, St James, on Wednesday.
He is 37-year-old Yaungsen Li, who was arrested and charged for unlawful use of trademark.
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| Some of the counterfeit items that were seized in Montego Bay, St James, on display at the Counter- Terrorism Organised Crime Investigation Branch on Orange Street in downtown Kingston yesterday. (Photos: Racquel Porter) |
Yaungsen, who is the manager of Beauty Queen Haberdashery on St James Street in Montego Bay, is to appear in the St James Parish Court on January 24.
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| Bags containing counterfeit items seized on Wednesday at a haberdashery in Montego Bay, St James piled in a heap at the offices of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch yesterday. |
Yesterday, head of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C-TOC) Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey, told reporters about the seizure at a press briefing at his Orange Street offices in downtown Kingston.
ACP Bailey said 733 pairs of Converse sneakers, 240 pairs of Nike slippers, 372 pairs of Nike sneakers, 76 pairs of Adidas slippers, six Louis Vuitton travel bags, three Gucci travel bags, two Puma hats, five Adidas hats, 18 Nike hats, 11 Jordan hats, and 15 Gucci purses were seized.
The police also seized 18 lead sheets along with five computers and six cellphones during a raid at Fairfield Estate in the parish.
No one was arrested in connection with that raid. more
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