U.S. arrests three in major fake luxury goods bust
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Authorities announced one of the biggest counterfeit luxury-goods busts in U.S. history on Thursday, with the arrests of three New Yorkers on charges of importing fake items from China worth about $100 million had they been real.
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The U.S. Secret Service arrested gang members allegedly responsible for $75 million in credit card fraud; over 200,000 account numbers recovered.
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More than three dozen people have been arrested in connection with a ring suspected of smuggling $35 million in Colombian heroin to New York and New Jersey through Mexico.
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Police arrested a third person in connection with an inquiry into alleged cash for honours in Parliament, they said, shortly after rebailing Lord Michael Levy, an ally of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of ongoing efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country's products.
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FBI agents raided a Las Vegas storage warehouse belonging to magician David Copperfield, seizing nearly two million dollars in cash, US media reported Friday.
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BEIJING, Oct. 29 -- China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of its efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country's products.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.
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U.S. police have seized thousands of pairs of fake Nike sneakers and charged six men in connection with one of the largest busts of counterfeit goods in recent U.S. history, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Three men were arrested Tuesday night for trying to extort &#36;3 million from Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony.
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BALTIMORE, Sept. 29 -- An elaborate sting involving a business in Maryland that was secretly run by federal agents has led to the arrests of four foreign nationals on charges of conspiring to illegally ship surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to the Sri Lankan rebel group known as the Tamil...
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U.S. authorities arrested eight people on Monday in connection with a Costa Rica-based online sports gambling operation they said made millions of dollars in profits annually.
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The United States returned ancient pottery, gold jewelry, burial shrouds and hundreds of other stolen pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru on Wednesday after they were seized in a Florida smuggling investigation.
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Three men from India were indicted Monday on federal charges of hacking into online brokerage accounts and pumping up stock values to turn a hefty profit for themselves, the Justice Department said.
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Chinese police detain three top executives at milk giant Yili, with reports suggesting that they are being investigated for embezzlement.
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Federal agents today arrested four people on espionage charges, including a Defense Department employee from Alexandria, and accused them of passing classified information to China that included details about the Space Shuttle and U.S. military sales to Taiwan.
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US enforcement agencies have arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in recent weeks, according to several people involved in the actions.