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$100,000 in counterfeit clothes seized in Newport News

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NEWPORT NEWS

Police seized more than $100,000 worth of counterfeit merchandise from a store at 3311 Jefferson Ave.

Police investigators who specialize in economic crimes and agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement served a search warrant Wednesday at Kamato’s Clothing in Peddler’s Village Mini Mall, police wrote in a news release.

The investigators also seized more than $700, the release says.

The merchandise seized was clothing, said Officer Harold Eley, a police spokesman.

Mamadou Diallo, 31, was charged with trademark infringement, police wrote in the release. Diallo lives in the 1500 block of Goldsboro Drive in Hampton.

The charge is a Class 6 felony that carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of $2,500.


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