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A Texas man is charged with trademark forgery after he was caught with more than $20,000 worth of counterfeit Apple products.
On March 29, Conelle Davis was stopped by Houston police while driving a stolen Toyota Camry. When authorities searched the vehicle, they found five iPads, 11 Apple Watches and 13 AirPods.
If these items were genuine, their total value would be more than $20,000.
The Harris County Precinct 5 Constable's Office confirmed that the packaging and Apple products in question were real. But the goods inside did not match the description. For example, a box labeled “new iPad Pro” could contain an old, used or broken product.
“I haven’t seen this before,” Dennis Underwood, CEO of cybersecurity company CyberCrucible, told Click2Houston.
“It's really interesting because almost every example you can give says, 'Oh, this is how you test for counterfeit.' Counterfeiters and people changing devices, they read the same blog posts, they read the same instructions, and it's not really just one thing you have to look for. It's a combination of things.”
Davis has been arrested twice in Harris County for trademark forgery. Similar accusations were brought against him in other places.
A day earlier, police in Northern Ireland seized more than $750,000 worth of counterfeit iPhones, AirPods and iPhone cases.
At the end of March, the head of an international gang involved in a scam involving the return of 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads was sentenced to more than four years in prison.
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