Feds bust bogus-branded karaoke imports in Calif.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An electronics importer is singing the blues after federal officials in Los Angeles seized a nearly $1 million shipment of karaoke machines with bogus brand-name labels.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesman Jaime Ruiz said Thursday that more than 1,900 machines with counterfeit "SD" labels — for Northern California-based SanDisk Corp. — were seized in mid-May.
Ruiz says privacy laws prohibit him from naming the importer, who wasn't fined and is not the subject of a criminal probe over the machines that arrived at the Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex from China.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He says his agency hopes losing the valuable shipment will be incentive enough to keep the importer from trying to deal in counterfeit devices again.