Trio Counterfeited More Than $1.5 Million Of Vape Products: NCPD

EAST MEADOW, NY — A trio of men were arrested early Thursday, police said, after an investigation showed they were selling more than a million dollars worth of counterfeit vaping products.

According to police, several search warrants were executed at midnight on Thursday, Aug. 1 in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens by Nassau County police officers, Nassau County District Attorney's Office agents, Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Patrol and the NYPD.

The warrants were executed at:

• A home on Fams Court, East Meadow
• A home on 87th Avenue, Bellerose
• A home on East Meadow Avenue, East Meadow
• Card Smart Store — 172-A Gardiners Ave., Levittown
• Card Smart Store — 1918 Hempstead Turnpike, East Meadow
• Smoke and Vape Store — 194 East Meadow Ave., East Meadow
• Card Smart Store — 18 Veteran’s Memorials Highway, Commack

Police say the warrants resulted in the arrests of Ali Asghar, 58, Ali Zar, 33 — both of whom lived on Fams Court in East Meadow — and Ali Moosa, 35, of 87th Avenue, Bellerose.

Police say they confiscated about $140,000 in cash and $1.5 million in counterfeit vaping products.

All three men were charged with first-degree trademark counterfeiting. They are scheduled to be arraigned in First District Court in Hempstead on Friday, Aug. 2.