Mississippi Business Journal » counterfeit http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:39:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Pair arrested yet again for selling counterfeit apparel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/11/pair-arrested-yet-again-for-selling-counterfeit-apparel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pair-arrested-yet-again-for-selling-counterfeit-apparel http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/11/pair-arrested-yet-again-for-selling-counterfeit-apparel/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:19:59 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=66442 OKOLONA — Two Chickasaw County residents have been arrested for a second time in a year on charges of selling counterfeit clothing. Attorney General Jim Hood says Willie McMillan, 46 and Sophia Hill, 47, were arrested after an undercover investigation into their store, Urban Wear. Investigators seized about $275,000 in counterfeit clothing from Okolona store. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/11/pair-arrested-yet-again-for-selling-counterfeit-apparel/feed/ 0 Hazlehurst man gets jail time for dealing bogus goods http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/hazlehurst-man-gets-jail-time-for-dealing-bogus-goods/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hazlehurst-man-gets-jail-time-for-dealing-bogus-goods http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/hazlehurst-man-gets-jail-time-for-dealing-bogus-goods/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:52:02 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=61252 HAZLEHURST — Authorities say a Hazlehurst man has been sentenced to five years after being convicted of selling counterfeit goods. The Mississippi attorney general’s office says 25-year-old Christopher Williams was sentenced by Judge Lamar Pickard in Copiah County Circuit Court. Authorities say an undercover investigation caught Williams selling counterfeit purses and other bogus merchandise on [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/15/hazlehurst-man-gets-jail-time-for-dealing-bogus-goods/feed/ 0 AGO gets Justice grant to fight counterfeiters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/27/ago-gets-justice-grant-to-fight-counterfeiters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ago-gets-justice-grant-to-fight-counterfeiters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/27/ago-gets-justice-grant-to-fight-counterfeiters/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:45:51 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=46502 JACKSON — The Attorney General’s Office has received a $200,000 grant to continue investigations into trafficking in counterfeit merchandise. The grant will be available in 2012 for the attorney general’s “Operation Knock Out Knock-Offs” program, a multi-tiered effort combining education, investigative work and agency partnerships to discourage and combat intellectual property crime. The grant from [...]

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