LAPP Seize $10 Million in Fake iPhones, iPods

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Posted February 7, 2011 at 1:05pm by iClarified

The Los Angeles Port Police have seized more than $10 million in counterfeit iPhones and iPods from a sophisticated downtown warehouse.

"This was a well-funded operation, and the counterfeits looked very authentic," said Ron Boyd, chief of the L.A. Port Police force. Boyd notes that a buyer might not have noticed the counterfeit until he or she got home and tried to hook up with iTunes.

Investigators said they thought that the shipment was designed to get Apple Inc. lookalike products into the market during the recent buzz over the Consumer Electronics Show. Some of the products were designed to look like older Apple products, such as iPod Nanos without touch screens, which remain popular with some consumers.

Bahram Zahab, 45, and his brother Edward Zahab, 40, have been arrested and charged with the sale of counterfeit goods.

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LAPP Seize $10 Million in Fake iPhones, iPods

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spiff - February 7, 2011 at 8:37pm

while these look like apple products, they containers do not say they are. These have been on the market and selling legally for years. They are labeled as MP3, not ipod and so on. If these guys have the money to front the shipments, they will certainly afford legal representation. Also, they authorities are ahead of themselves... These were caught in port, not point of sale. Good luck to both sides...

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