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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati recently seized shipments of fake earbuds and counterfeit jewelry from China.
One shipment contained 10,000 fake Apple earbuds and the other nearly 1,400 pieces of fake Cartier and Hermes jewelry, Customs said in a news release.
Had the earbuds and jewelry been genuine, the release said, they would have had a cumulative retail value of about $11,748,000.
“Buying counterfeit goods damages our economy and your bank account,” Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie said in the release.
“Supporting counterfeiting enterprises also supports criminal activities such as money laundering and drug trafficking, and leaves the consumer with an inferior, if not dangerous, product.”
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Industry at Night, by Horatio C. Forjohn, c. 1940. Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the General Services Administration.
Most discussions of fatigue at the turn of the twentieth century begin with neurasthenia (from a Greek term meaning nervous exhaustion), the diagnosis popularized by neurologist George M. Beard in 1869. Like other physicians at the time, Beard viewed the body as a machine powered by energy produced by the nerves. The depletion of that energy resulted in the condition he called neurasthenia. Although sufferers reported an array of vague symptoms, including irritability, weight loss, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and impotence, fatigue was the most important and rest a commonly prescribed remedy. We tend to assume we live in a time of unprecedented and overwhelming social and technological change. In the late nineteenth century, similar anxieties were provoked by the advent of telephones, telegraphs, trains, and what contemp
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Cincinnati recently seized nearly 9,400 pieces of fake jewelry that came from China and was headed to Texas.
The jewelry was purported to be made by Bvlgari, Cartier, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Pandora, Rolex, Tiffany, Tous and Versace.
Had it been genuine, the jewelry would have been worth more than $4.2 million, Customs said in a news release.
“Intellectual property theft harms the U.S. economy and threatens the security, health and safety of the American people,” Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie said in the release.
“Our officers are committed to protecting private industry and consumers and ensuring that legal trade continues to power our economy.”
Apr 22, 2021
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CINCINNATI Since April 1, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati have seized 10 shipments containing a total of over 106 pounds of smuggled ketamine. The shipments were coming from locations throughout Europe and Africa and were destined to addresses across the United States.
During routine inspections, officers decided to take a closer look at multiple shipments containing décor, clothing, spices, and protein powder, among other articles. After testing bottles of nutritional supplements, unknown liquids, and bath salts with a handheld chemical analyzer, officers discovered liquid or powder ketamine in all of the products. The cumulative value of the ketamine was $704,270.