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>> tonight on night line, counterfeit crusade. >> police department, open up your door. >> not heroin or cocaine. it's handbags. that knock off chanel couldn't hurt anybody? think again. >> who is this little girl? was she abducted? found in greece looking nothing like the people claiming to be her parents. now families of missing children hoping for answers as there is is a race to solve the mystery of maria. >> and this guy obviously thinks all that matters are looks. he spent six figures on plastic
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>> from new york city this is "nightline". >> thanks for joining us. when it comes to pricey handbags, most everyone is looking for a really good deal. but sometimes the reason that what looks like designer bags are so cheap is that they are knock offs. david wright joins law enforcement on the front lines on the fight against fakes.
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at a rooftop police parking lot in downtown la. >> this is going to be a complicated case. >> final briefing for a joint task force of the fbi and the lapd. >> questions and donuts are finished. and the officers mount up. >> okay? >> roger. we're on our way. >> soon they will be racing up the stairs of a nearby building. >> police department, open up the door. or i'm kicking it down. >> these are officers with the lapd's vice squad searching for something far more profitable than drugs. >> abc news, okay if we come in? >> counterfeit goods. >> lots of brand names, too? >> a wall covered here. >> all of it fake.
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>> gucci -- >> this detective has been on the counterfeit beat more than a dozen years. >> there is more money made from this stuff than narcotics. an average of $500 billion a year. >> he does busts like this 30 to 35 times a year. >> a couple a month? >> yeah. >> counterfeit goods from luxury handbags to dvds are a huge problem. criminals steal copy righted material every year. while that estimate may be grossly inflated, the losses to big brand names to big enough to make copy right enforcement a huge priority for the customs service. front lines in that fight are here, the port of los angeles and long beach. the biggest in the us of a. more goods come through los
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angeles than all other major american ports combined. >> we are the largest sea port by far. >> that's because this is the first stop for almost everything the u.s. imports from china, japan, and korea. that's a lot of stuff. on average, a container arrives here every six seconds. never one at a time. always on huge vessels like this one. nightline embedded with u.s. customs and border protection to see how they lead the effort to police counterfeit goods with the tsunami of goods coming in every day, a significant challenge to find contraband. >> feels like it will literally be looking for a needle in a hay stack. >> before this vessel set sail from china, a manifest describing the contents of each container arrives here.
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it is ken price's job to search for the needle before the hay stack gets here. >> i look at container freight coming into the u.s. to make sure it is what they say it is. >> after 20 years on the job, he has a good eye for things that are out of the ordinary just on the paper work. >> it just doesn't make sense so i want to see what's in there. >> all of which takes place days, even weeks before the ship ties off. it has to be that way. if there is simply too much to search. today as we board this vessel, the custom's officers have a pretty good idea where to look. as immigration clears the captain and crew. >> i'm from south korea. >> the officers are already doing a preliminary search. they take their time. a ship like this will take days to unload. the most urgent priorities, things that might pose a health or safety threat. radio active material for one. the scanners indicate the
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presence of radiation on this truck. so it will have to go through a secondary inspection. in this case, thankfully, apparently not radiation that poses any threat. >> this is telling us this is natural radiation. it's not a dangerous type of radiation that we should be worried about. >> anything flagged based on the manifest goes to an rpm scanner, short for radiation porthole monitor, like an x-ray device. >> we are looking for drugs and weapons. >> we are only allowed to show you part of this process. >> this is where i get all of the readings. >> the customs department requested that we keep some procedures to ourselves for security reasons. if the container is in anyway suspicious, customs officers open it on the spot. >> what does the manifest say? >> sure enough, shoes. the goods that are impounded for
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secondary inspection end up here, in a warehouse. >> we have a suspected counterfeit handbag. >> we see a shipment of fake hermes bags. 16,000 of them. when the officers go through, they see the record was listed as a home and garden store but the commodity was manifested as handbags but that didn't add up. >> if they were real the shipment would be worth more than $210 million. on the black market the fakes will fetch 300,000. and chances are, whoever this was addressed to is going to say i don't know anything about it? >> if they are smart i would imagine that is what they will say. they would wash their hands completely of it. >> the customs take any suggestion that this is a victimless crime or that through enforcement efforts like this, the u.s. government is helping to prop up the artificially high
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price of luxury goods targeted by the knock offs. they insist it is not just the makers of 4,000$4,000 bags that harmed. >> it will finance some other illicit activity like terrorism, trafficking of drugs or something. >> this is a criminal's atm machine? these fake bags? >> yes. it's the same as importing drugs or people. >> it's not just luxury goods that get knocked off. >> is this real or fake? >> it's both. >> this is general council for beach body, makers of 9 p 90 x insanity and more. for every real set of workout videos on the desk, there is a fake set that is basically indistinguishable. the company has several full-time employees whose only job is to search constantly online looking for deals on beach body products that are too good to be true. >> how big a problem is this for
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you? >> huge for piracy. it costs us up to $75 million a year. >> that's 10% of the company's revenues. money that doesn't go to new products, employees or investors. the back of the lapd bus, the 24-year-old guy who runs this back alley shop pleads for leniency. >> i am doing this for my family. >> if convicted he will likely be deported for a second time. >> i'm not going to see my family or baby girl. >> but the detective suspects he will eventually make his way back. >> from a law enforcement standpoint, is this a losing battle? >> we won't ever say it's a losing battle but every step we make is a gain for us. >> a raid like this one is just a drop in the bucket. and there is an ocean of illegal goods to police. >> something to think about next
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>> in most missing children
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cases, the authorities frantically try to locate a missing boy or girl. but in greece, the fair haired little girl known asth maria wa found, looking nothing like those who claim to be her parents. who is she? was she kidnapped? we are in athens with the latest. >> it's an international mystery, who is this little blond girl seen here dancing in pink? greek officials are asking the same question. she has been dubbed the blond ang angel. it is her blond hair and blue eyes that made her stand out to police, who looking for drugs and weapons last week raided the camp. authorities noticed maria's light features are in stark contrast with the dark features of the couple calling herself her adopted parents.
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she appears to be five or six years old. the couple's argues that the child's mother gave the young girl to them and they took her in. >> our clients claiming that we never abduct this child. we just adopted. >> prosecutors also suspect the couple falsified paper work for their 14 children, six of them born within ten months according to documents. authorities are also investigating whether maria might be a victim of human trafficking. outside the court, members of the community rallied in support of the family. today the bbc visited the community when maria was found. no one answered the door but there were signs that children lived there. one neighbor said the family took good care of maria and that she cried. now there is an international effort to find her biological
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parents. >> now trying to dereceive the specific lead that might be useful for the police. >> maddie has been missing since 2007, taken from her bed while her family was on vacation. >> i am begging to let madeleine come home. please give our little girl back. >> now for the first time, there are new images that seem to offer a glimmer of hope as scottland yard announced a new person of interest. >> if they know who this person is, please come forward. >> and new optimism. >> i genuinely believe there is a possibility that she is alive. >> that led to a massive new effort to finally bring her home. it has also given the family a
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reason for hope. more than 20 year ace go, ben needham was abducted during a family vacation. his sister never gave up hope. discovering maria could be the spark that the family needs to find ben, particularly when they were told by greek police there was no way the community were involved. >> for years and years we were told that gypsies don't steal babies and that it would be impossible to hide a european or british child in such camps. it was quite shocking. any the. >> her plight has atracked worldwide attention. u.s. officials say there does not appear to be a link to a
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missing american child. but at the national center for missing and exploited children, they are following the case closely. >> we will be communicating with greek authorities and we have asked that they their the dna information with us so we can compare to any children here in the u.s. that which we have samples on file. >> another facet of this investigation is how many children are with this group or others? there are hundreds of thousands of roma communities throughout europe. they tend to work outside the mainstream society. >> so, who are the roma? 11 million strong and originally from india. today many live as knnomads. this case is unusual say experts, especially in greece. >> up to now in greece we have seen schools of roma families
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selling newly born children to greek families that do not have children and cannot adopt and those families in fact came from other areas, most of them. this is the first case i have seen now where a child ends up and lives for years in the roma family. >> as for moo rmaria, her denta records are also being checked. >> what a story. thanks alex. >> next, for one justin bieber super fan, all that matters is looki ining exactly like the te pop super star even if he has got to go under the knife to do it.
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>> it's music monday. three stars fighting for atep attenti attention. lady gaga releasing do what you want. and tweeted out a clip from an abc news interview where madonna responds to claims that gaga is a copy cat. >> when you saw born this way did you think -- >> when i heard it on the radio, i thought that sounds very familiar. >> gaga continued in her tweet, i don't need anybody's permission to be remembered. i will be whether they like it or not. and took the opportunity to address outlandish claims that
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