Jersey City police charge woman with selling counterfeit designer handbags out of her apartment

 Police have arrested a Jersey City woman on charges she was selling counterfeit designer bags and authorities seized more than $4 million worth of top-end knockoffs, officials said.

Jennifer T. Le, 30, of Clendenny Avenue, was arrested Thursday on charges she violated the New Jersey Counterfeiting Act, said Jersey City Police Special Investigation Unit Sgt. Edward Nestor yesterday.

Police say Le was selling bags, including Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Prada out of a Van Winkle Avenue apartment that had been set up like a store. More than 10,500 items were seized by police, mostly from a storage facility on Tonnelle Avenue, Nestor said.

The probe began when police received a call from an investigator working for Louis Vuitton and police then sent in undercover officers to purchase bags before arresting Le, Nestor said.

The bags were being sold for 10 to 20 percent of their retail value, Nestor said, adding that all of the bags are to be destroyed. Police said they believe Le had connections in New York and China and the investigation is ongoing.

Nestor called the alleged counterfeiting enterprise a “major operation.”

Le made her first court appearance on the charges in Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City on Friday via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny.