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Gables Group Closes
Counterfeit Product Operation
in Mexico
(January
31, 2010) The Gables Group, Inc., in conjunction with the Office of the
Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico, directed and
effectuated the shuttering of a "vertically integrated" (manufacturing,
wholesale and retail) counterfeit goods operation based in Mexico City,
D.F. that offered it's illicit products throughout Mexico.
This enterprise had brazenly supplied Mexican government agencies,
private businesses, and the general public with dangerous counterfeit
chemical products, masquerading as an internationally respected brand.
The year-long investigation began upon receipt of a report that
wholesale quantities of counterfeit product had been sold, and were
being offered for sale, in several locations across Mexico.
Although bearing labels that closely resembled those of our client's
respected product, these counterfeit goods were, in actuality,
dangerous chemicals that threatened public safety.
Our agents located sources, purchased counterfeit product in several
Mexican cities, and subsequently identified the location of the prime
manufacturing facility.
After the preparation and presentation of requisite documentation and
supporting pleadings, government officials (search warrant in hand)
conducted a raid of the afore-referenced factory (located in a remote
location outside the capital). Agents seized containers, counterfeit
labels, and samples of the recently manufactured counterfeit product.
Owing to the extensive support and perseverance of the Office of
Attorney General, further search and arrest warrants were obtained.
On the evening of 9 September, 2009, agents of the Policia Federal
Ministerial (PFM) raided and closed a retail location in Mexico City,
seized additional stockpiles of counterfeit product, and arrested the
manager on duty. Intelligence obtained from the raid, coupled with
substantial evidence previously gathered by Gables Group sources,
resulted in the issuance of an arrest warrant for the apparent
mastermind of the counterfeit operation. Federal officials promptly
executed the warrant, resulting in the subject's immediate
incarceration.
Hijacking the names of respected manufacturers, and claiming legitimacy
via the use of nearly identical counterfeit labels and/or product
designs, professional, well organized criminal enterprises defraud and
endanger the public, and threaten the reputations and financial results
of legitimate manufacturers. Close cooperation between industry and
governmental officials is necessary to ensure the prompt and efficient
"rolling up" of these pirate entities.
The Gables Group would like to thank the employees and prosecutors
within The Office of The Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico,
for their painstaking dedication and invaluable assistance herein.
Gables
Group
Director Re-elected
as IACP Section Chair
October, 2009
The
Gables Group's Director of Medical Legal Research, Dr. Fabrice
Czarnecki, has been reelected Chair of The Police Physicians
Section of
The International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Dr. Czarnecki Serves as Moderator For IACP
Medical Panel Discussion
October 2007
Fabrice
Czarnecki, M.D. served as Moderator for The Police Physicians
Section of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police ("IACP"), during
its October 13-14, 2007 session, held during
the annual
meeting of IACP.
On
October 14, Dr. Czarnecki presented "Update on Electronic Control
Weapons: Review of the Recent Medical Publications and Recommendations."
He
also served as a panel member for the "Occupational Medicine" forum,
held on October 13, and for the "Excited Delirium" forum held on
October 14.
Dr. Czarnecki Delivers Tactical First Aid Seminars to
Law
Enforcement Agencies
The
Gables Group's Director of Medical Research, Dr. Fabrice Czarnecki,
presented his well received interactive seminar, "Tactical First Aid",
to law enforcement agencies in the Baltimore/Washington D.C.
area, and to local, state and federal agencies at a federal facility
on Long Island, New York.
This
program, designed to aid law enforcement officers in dealing
with
gunshot and edged-weapon wounds, has been developed in
conjunction with well-known firearms and defensive tactics instructor
John Holschen (formerly a senior instructor at the Joint Special Operations Medical
Training Center at Fort Bragg, and one of the nation's leaders
in firearms and defensive tactics
training for law enforcement personnel).
The
program, which has been accredited by MIEMSS (Maryland Institute for
Emergency Medical Services Systems), the Maryland State EMS agency, and
MPCTC (Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions), was
alsol presented at ILEETA's April 2008 annual conference
and training seminar.
Three Articles on Officer Safety Published in
Medical Periodical
The August 2003 edition of the medical journal
"Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine - Law
Enforcement Worker Health" contained three articles by Dr.
Czarnecki: "The Pregnant Officer", "Chemical Hazards in Law Enforcement" and "Ergonomics and Safery in Law Enforcement".
Gables Group Director Authors
Featured
Article :
"Law Enforcement Response
To WMD Attacks"
The
January 2002 issue of American Police Beat,
the nation's largest newspaper with an audited circulation targeted
exclusively to law enforcement officers, features a front page article
by our Director of Medical/Legal Research, Dr. Fabrice Czarnecki.
Gables
Group Medical Research Director Speaks at NYPD Forum
Gables
Group Director of Medical/Legal Research Dr. Fabrice Czarnecki, M.D.,
M.P.H., presented a one-hour briefing on "Security Director Responses
to
NBC Threats" at the NYPD Academy in October, 2001. This presentation,
prepared for the NYPD's "APPL" program was delivered to over
700 corporate security directors and officials.
Put The Gables Group's International
Operational Experience To Work for You
The
Gables Group can offer customized programs to meet the informational
and planning needs of government agencies and corporate clients. Your
agency or firm can utilize the extensive operational and tactical
experience of The Gables Group's directors and associates to meet today's
international security and/or intelligence challenges.
Contact
us at:
1-844-300-9210
or +1.206.337.0035
to
learn how The Gables Group may be of assistance.
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Our
Experience
Our
firm's principals, having extensive international experience, are
frequent lecturers at prestigious academies and law enforcement forums.
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Gables
Group Shuts Down Multi-Million Dollar
Internet and Telephone Fraud
June 2007
Working
in conjunction with contacts on several continents, The Gables Group
successfully shut down several fraudulent internet websites, operated
from Southeast Asia (and hosted in several European
countries).
Falsely using the names of highly respected
international firms, and claiming legitimacy via well designed,
sophisticated, websites, this highly professional, well organized
criminal enterprise fleeced unsuspecting investors out of tens of millions of
dollars, before the plugs were pulled on their various sites.
Tracing
the web hosts to Romania, Ireland and France, the firm's investigators
were able to take down the sites, sometimes as quickly as the day
that they sprang up.
The
client's commitment to protecting their good name, and to aid unwary investors,
allowed the firm to move far more expeditiously than official civil
investigations, saving many investors from certain losses.
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The
Gables Group Delivers Comprehensive Report to Distinguished State
Police Agency
March 2006
The
Gables Group, Inc. of Miami, Florida, was honored to have
been chosen
by The Texas Department of Public Safety to perform an evaluation of
the agency’s trooper-trainee active countermeasures training.
Department
officials decided to examine the training after DPS recruit Jimmy Ray
Carty died from injuries he sustained during active countermeasures
training in May 2005.
The
evaluation was performed by Dr. Richard J. Miller and Dr. Fabrice
Czarnecki.
Dr.
Miller is the former director of Federal Law Enforcement Medical
Programs for Federal Occupational Health in Atlanta, Georgia. He also
is a medical consultant with the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center in Brunswick, Georgia.
Dr.
Czarnecki is an attending physician in the emergency department of
St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, and also is a medical
consultant with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.
The
firm began the project in late January, 2006 and delivered the final
evaluation and recommendations to DPS in early March, 2006.
On November 10, 2006, the Texas House of Representatives' Committee on
Law Enforcement issued a report on DPS Trooper training, pursuant to
an assignment received from the Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
The
Committee's report noted that, as a result of the Gables Group's study,
trooper training had been "changed entirely", and that "the
Department's implementation of the new training has reduced injuries
significantly in both numbers and severity".
The
report conluded by observing that "the Defensive Tactics training
currently in use by the Department incorporates all the major
recommendations made by the consulting medical doctors of The Gables
Group Inc. These changes have resulted in Defensive
Tactics training that is not only safer but more effective".
View The House Commitee on Law Enforcement Report
View
Full text of the report
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