The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worked with multiple NFL teams and various law enforcement agencies throughout the nation to identify stores and vendors selling counterfeit trademarked items, ICE stated.

With two days left before Super Bowl XLV, government agents have seized 36,273 items of phony Super Bowl-related memorabilia along with other counterfeit wares for a total take of about $3.56 million. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area alone, where the Super Bowl will be played, 10,430 items such as fake jerseys, ball caps, T-shirts, jackets were seized with an estimated value of $554,280, the agency stated.

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ICE special agents seized earlier this week that illegally streamed live sporting telecasts over the Internet, including NFL games, the agency stated.

According to an : "Content on popular websites such as Rojadirecta.org, Channelsurfing.net and ATDHE.net was replaced by a note saying that the domain names were seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials through warrants obtained by the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. The other sites shut down Monday were HQ-Streams.com, HQ-Streams.net, Firstrow.net, Ilemi.com and Rojadirecta.com."