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Yong Chin, a former Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent, recently received the Intellectual Property Excellence award in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 for spearheading investigations that crushed the activities of several counterfeit Viagra organizations around the Los Angeles area.

According to ICE officials, Chin was instrumental in the arrest of Frank Fu Jen Huang, who later pleaded guilty to producing and selling counterfeit drugs.

Huang admitted that he had imported counterfeit Viagra tablets manufactured in China. He then used mail-drops and friends" addresses to receive the drug shipments, lout Lout - Lout is a batch text formatting system and an embedded language by Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@cs.su.oz.au>. The language is procedural, with Scribe-like syntax.  of which were intercepted by customs officials and led to his arrest, officials said. Total value of counterfeit drags in this case was estimated at $5.7 million.

Chin, who joined the U.S. Customs Service in 2000 after a 10-year stint with the Drug Enforcement Administration The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was established in 1973 by President richard m. nixon as part of the Justice Department, thus uniting a number of federal drug agencies that had often worked at cross-purposes. , is now based in Washington, D.C., at the Intellectual Property Rights Center. where he continues to target IPR IPR Intellectual Property Rights
IPR Inprocess/Inprogress Review
IPR Industrial Property Rights
IPR Institute for Policy Research (Northwestern University and University of Cincinnati)
IPR Institute of Public Relations
 violators.
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Title Annotation:The LABJ's L.A. Stories
Author:Sivaraman, Aarthi
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 31, 2005
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