A Nebraska Facebook shop selling counterfeit Chanel and Louis Vuitton
Christine L. Parry, 62, of Columbus, Nebraska, ran an online shop called Bugaboo Boutique on Facebook selling counterfeit Birkenstock, Ray-Ban, Chanel and Louis Vuitton items, among other goods, shipped from China and Taiwan. US Customs and Border Protection agents inspecting shipments at a FedEx facility in Anchorage, Alaska found the counterfeit goods and traced them to Parry. She was sentenced in January 2025 to time served, a $12,000 fine, and $1,935 in restitution to two victims.
- Year
- 2025
- Where
- United States
- Outcome
- Sentenced
- Reported loss
- $1,935
- Victims
- 2
- Schemes
- Counterfeit goods scams
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-23
The facts, as recorded
- Christine L. Parry, 62, of Columbus, Nebraska, operated Bugaboo Boutique, an online shop on Facebook.
- Items sold included counterfeit Birkenstock sandals, Ray-Ban sunglasses, Chanel earrings and bags, and Louis Vuitton bags and shoes, plus other clothing, wallets, headphones and sports apparel.
- US Customs and Border Protection agents found the counterfeit goods while inspecting shipments from China to a FedEx facility in Anchorage, Alaska; shipping records from FedEx and DHL showed numerous further deliveries from China and Taiwan to Parry.
- Investigators concluded Parry knew the items were fake: her own listings described them as 'virtually identical to the name brand goods but sold at a more affordable price' because they came from a different manufacturer.
- US District Judge Susan M. Bazis sentenced Parry on January 16, 2025 to time served, plus a $12,000 fine.
- Parry was ordered to pay $1,935 in restitution, to two victims.
Why this case matters
This is the clearest documented example on this site of a counterfeit storefront running on an ordinary consumer platform, Facebook, rather than a dedicated e-commerce website, and it shows how the fraud is caught: not by a buyer complaint, but by Customs and Border Protection agents inspecting inbound freight at a shipping hub, years before any individual sale is ever scrutinised.
The listing language gave away the knowledge
Parry’s own product descriptions called the goods “virtually identical to the name brand goods” from “a different manufacturer,” language investigators treated as proof she knew exactly what she was selling. A seller who genuinely believed items were authentic would have no reason to write that qualifier at all.
The border, not the buyer, caught it
No buyer complaint drove this case. CBP agents inspecting ordinary freight shipments at a FedEx facility in Anchorage, Alaska found the counterfeit goods first, then used FedEx and DHL shipping records to trace a pattern of deliveries from China and Taiwan back to Parry’s address.
What buyers actually recovered
The $1,935 in restitution, split between two named victims, is a small fraction of what a buyer losing money on a counterfeit handbag or pair of sunglasses typically pays per item, and far smaller than the $12,000 fine Parry paid to the government rather than to the people who bought from her.
The caveat
The sentence and the facts above reflect what the court found at sentencing. The source does not report how long Bugaboo Boutique operated, how many total buyers there were, or the total dollar value of goods Parry sold; the $1,935 restitution figure is specific to the two victims named in the judgment.
Sources
- Nebraska woman sentenced in federal court for trafficking counterfeits online. WOWT. Accessed 2026-10-23. Supports: Parry's name, age, hometown, the Bugaboo Boutique name and Facebook platform, the brands and items counterfeited, the CBP/FedEx/DHL shipment detection, the quoted listing language, the sentencing date, judge, sentence, fine and restitution figures.