Agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized nearly 1,200 items of counterfeit MLB clothing being offered for sale by vendors on San Francisco streets Monday following the San Francisco Giant’s sweep of the World Series, according to sfgate.com.
Agents seized more than 1,000 T-shirts as well as 109 counterfeit baseball caps and 69 knit caps, sfgate.com reported. DHS estimated the value of the goods, if they were genuine, at $25,000. The seized shirts lacked official MLB 3-D holograms.
A DHS spokesman told the news site, which is owned by the San Francisco Chronicle, that the counterfeit goods probably came from street gangs in Los Angeles that “buy shirts overseas, print them in California and find vendors to sell them.”
