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Three McAllen, Texas-area retailers indicted for selling 'knock-off' items.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2004

By Cari Hammerstrom, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 14--MCALLEN, Texas -- Three alleged female fashion accessory traffickers were arrested and then indicted in U.S. District Court Monday afternoon for their blatant disregard for the Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Cartier and Christian Dior labels.

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in cooperation with a private investigator from the Investigative Services Company of Dallas, which looks into trademark violations, arrested Joyce Zeldis, 39, the operator of Joyce's International Boutique in McAllen, and Hilma Aurora Trejo, 37, and Myrana Tijerina, 23, of Trendy, a Pharr store, for selling and conspiring to sell "knock-off" merchandise.

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