Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach Brand Protection Investigations

E3 Legacy Intel investigates brand crime across Broward and Palm Beach counties. We identify the people behind organized retail crime, counterfeit product, diverted goods, and cargo theft, and we build the evidence prosecutors can use.

Luxury retail meets a major port

Broward County sits on one of the state’s busiest ports, and it shows in the seizure record. In April 2026, Customs and Border Protection officers at Port Everglades seized roughly 8,500 counterfeit designer perfumes, a shipment that would have been worth more than a million dollars had the Gucci, Burberry, and Armani labels on it been real; it arrived from overseas and was routed toward South Florida. Sawgrass Mills, one of the largest outlet destinations in the country, concentrates exactly the kind of premium retail that counterfeiters and organized theft crews target, and the luxury districts of Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and Palm Beach supply the genuine inventory that makes the fakes profitable. State enforcement has charged organized retail-theft operations working across Broward and the surrounding counties.

Our brand-protection work across Broward and Palm Beach

We trace stolen and counterfeit product back to the operators, map the network across Broward and Palm Beach, and document it to the standard the Broward Sheriff’s Office, the Palm Beach County Sheriff, and Florida’s statewide prosecutors expect. We handle organized retail crime, counterfeit product, product diversion, and cyber-enabled cargo theft.

A Florida-licensed firm

E3 Legacy Intel is a division of Southern Recon Agency, LLC, operating under Florida Private Investigator License A-1400197. A licensed firm can lawfully run controlled purchases, field work, and chain-of-custody documentation that turn intelligence into evidence. Call (877) 732-6648 for a confidential consultation.

Broward and Palm Beach Matters Center on High Value Resale

South Florida luxury resale moves real and fake goods side by side. We authenticate product through covert purchase and identify the people running accounts on resale marketplaces and social storefronts.

Brands that want the whole program run for them, from strategy to enforcement, can bring us in as a fractional brand protection director.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you cover both Broward and Palm Beach?

Yes, across Broward and Palm Beach counties, including Fort Lauderdale, Sunrise, Boca Raton, and the wider South Florida region, with statewide reach beyond it.

Why is South Florida a brand-crime hotspot?

It concentrates the nation’s largest outlet mall and elite luxury districts alongside a top United States container port, which puts organized retail crime, counterfeit flow, and cargo theft in one region.

Can your findings support prosecution?

We build documented, chain-of-custody evidence to the standard local sheriffs and Florida’s statewide prosecutors expect. How a case is charged is up to the authorities, and this is general information, not legal advice.

See our Florida brand protection overview and the statewide brand protection page.