NYPD busts $8 million counterfeit phone scheme

Found on CNet News on Friday, 02 December 2016
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Officers executed a search warrant for "Phone Traders" on Coney Island Avenue at about 11:55 a.m. ET Thursday. They seized 9,000 counterfeit phones and $59,000 from the store. The location had actually been a warehouse for a stash of fake phones, which police believed was supplying smaller stores with its counterfeit devices.

So police seems to do more than confiscating money from law-abiding citizens to raise their funds.