MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. (WSVN) - A man and woman have been arrested after, police said, they turned their Miami Gardens home into a counterfeit luxury storefront and sold fake Louis Vuitton merchandise valued at more than $500,000.
According to an arrest affidavit, 33-year-old Yuri Rafael Velazquez-Garcia and 32-year-old Mayrelis Marquez Plans were arrested Tuesday at their residence on Northwest 185th Street, where detectives executed a search warrant and seized more than 500 counterfeit items.
Investigators said Velazquez-Garcia and Marquez Plans advertised items through social media accounts and offered nationwide shipping. The couple called their illegal operation “the Louis Vuitton of Hialeah.”
Police said the home had been staged to resemble a retail storefront, with luxury-branded merchandise displayed for sale.
Videos posted to social media captured displays of what appear to be designer-brand sneakers, hats, sunglasses and even designer handbags. Investigators said the shelves and merchandise depicted in the clips were put up in the suspects’ house, and every item is fake.
After the couple posted a video to social media in July, it launched an investigation. In the following weeks, undercover detectives conducted two controlled buys, purchasing handbags, clothing and accessories that brand experts later confirmed were counterfeit.
Other people posted videos as well, showing themselves shopping at the home.
Velazquez-Garcia and Marquez Plans appeared before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer, Wednesday morning.
“You were arrested for counterfeiting goods or services, over $1,000,” said the judge.
When addressing Marquez Plans, Glazer said, “I’ll give you bond, $5,000. Thank you, have a nice day. You have a good lawyer, listen to what he tells you.”
Velazquez-Garcia and Marquez Plans are charged with felony counterfeiting involving goods worth $20,000 or more. They have since bonded out of jail.
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