Stacker 2 Ephedra Involved in Sopranos' Style Bust

NJ Police Raid Bogus Stacker 2 Ephedra Outlet

Stacker 2  Ephedra Label Misspelled by Dumb Crooks!

Stacker 2® with ephedra was developed 10 years ago for bodybuilders as an effective herbal alternative to the practice of "stacking". Stacking was what bodybuilders routinely engaged in by stacking and ingesting ma huang or Ephedrene HCL, caffeine and aspirin to give them extra energy for work outs and acquire a lean cut look before competitive shows.

Stacker 2 is no longer available with ephedra. It's only available as an ephedra fee product since 2004. But that didn't stop bootleggers! Authorities busted owners of two North Jersey health food stores and seizing thousands of counterfeit bottles of the popular Stacker 2 Ephedra dietary supplement.

"These were bottles that were designed and marketed to look just like the product, right down to their expiration dates," Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said of the February raid.

The word "supplements" on some of the labels was misspelled as "suplement". tipping off the owners of NVE, the company that made the famous fat burner. The dumb criminals should have known they'd get caught. They set up their scam in NVE's home state, New Jersey.

Frank Huerta, 46, of Upper Saddle River, and Arun Datwani, 37, of Westfield, were charged with theft by deception, trademark counterfeiting and money laundering following a series of Wednesday raids at their homes and businesses, Molinelli said.

Investigators also seized about $3.5 million in alleged profits from the sale of the counterfeit Stacker 2 -- apparently, a harmless caffeine-and-aspirin blend, the prosecutor said.

Stacker 2, manufactured by Sussex County-based company NVE Pharmaceuticals, is a yellow diet pill that is advertised as a way to help you lose weight.

It once contained ephedra – a root-based medicine that was banned by the federal FDA in 2004. Investigators also believe the bootleg product did not even contain the prized ephedra ingredient. Customers were paying $70 for caffeine and aspirin in a pretty yellow capsule.

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