BOGUS DESIGNER DUDS GO TO NEEDY.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer GLENDALE - Clothing seized by Glendale police from a counterfeit manufacturing operation will now help the homeless. In all, officials removed 16,120 articles of clothing from the police station - an assortment of shirts, hats, sweaters, pants and sweat suits that have crowded the evidence locker since the close of a 1997 counterfeiting case, said spokesman Chahe Keuroghelian. In December 1998, La Crescenta resident Eun Bom Noh, 40, pleaded guilty to manufacturing and selling counterfeit clothing, Keuroghelian said. Because Noh had no criminal record, he was sentenced in Pasadena Superior Court to five years' felony probation, he said. Police arrested Noh in April 1997 after officers responded to a 911 hang-up call from his Maple Street home. When officers arrived, they found his home in disarray and his wife crying, Keuroghelian said. So they searched the home and in the bedroom found an industrial sewing machine sewing machine, device that stitches cloth and other materials. An attempt at mechanical sewing was made in England (1790) with a machine having a forked, automatic needle that made a single-thread chain. In 1830, B. , boxes of counterfeit designer labels and numerous piles of clothes. The labels advertised Calvin Klein Noun 1. Calvin Klein - United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942) Calvin Richard Klein, Klein , DKNY DKNY Donna Karan New York , Nike and Tommy Hilfiger. Noh owned a shop in Los Angeles but manufactured and affixed af·fix tr.v. af·fixed, af·fix·ing, af·fix·es 1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package. 2. the bogus brand-name labels at his home, Keuroghelian said. ``Like a stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden of illegal drugs, the clothes were confiscated con·fis·cate tr.v. con·fis·cat·ed, con·fis·cat·ing, con·fis·cates 1. To seize (private property) for the public treasury. 2. To seize by or as if by authority. See Synonyms at appropriate. adj. and the judge ordered they not be returned to the defendant,'' he said. Kris Ockershauser, the product donations manager for Shelter Partnership Inc. in Los Angeles, said Thursday that her organization is always looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. donations. Shelter Partnership serves more than 200 homeless shelters, she said, so clothes, personal care products and blankets are always needed. ``Shelters usually run on a pretty tight budget. Donations free up money that can be used to help the homeless get back on their feet and back into the mainstream,'' she said. Over the past 10 years, people have donated nearly 60 million items to the organization, including a small portion of seized goods. The fake designer labels will be removed from the clothes before they are disseminated, Keuroghelian said, so the garments can't be resold as designer clothes. |
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