$500,000 worth of fake merchandise found at Tulare home, deputies say

Wednesday, February 2, 2022
TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A woman is behind bars after possessing about $500,000 worth of designer bags and other goods.

Tulare County detectives received information from Homeland Security about a large shipment on the way to the Valley from the Philippines.
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Detectives identified the receiver of the products as a home in Tulare.

When Detectives served a warrant at the home, they found 41-year-old Maria Teresa Avina Lopez.

In her home, she had more than 700 counterfeit purses, 600 pieces of clothes and two large totes full of fake jewelry.
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Lopez was arrested for possession of counterfeit goods.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call the Tulare County Sheriff's Office.
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