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Memorabilia fraud scheme rocks hobby

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The Hamilton County Coroner's Office identified autograph dealer Brett Lemieux, 45, as the man found dead when police executed a search warrant into a scheme involving fake sports memorabilia in Westfield, Indiana. In Facebook post allegedly written by Lemieux, he detailed a huge counterfeiting business that sold more than four million items and surpassed $350 million in sales.

Just days after the latest Superman reboot soared to a $125 million opening weekend, Upper Deck’s new Fleer Brilliants Superman trading card set landed on retail-store shelves packed with parallels and serial-numbered chases.

As the National Sports Collectors Convention rolls into Chicago next week, cllct offers its quick guide to the event.

Even before the All-Star Game had ended Saturday night, Breaking T was offering shirts the players wore in Indy.

The Pirates drew their biggest crowd of the season as fans clamored for the bobblehead featuring the late rapper.

One family of four paid $13.50 apiece for tickets to Michael Jordan’s NBA debut Oct. 26, 1984. More than 40 years later, two of those tickets are hitting the auction block, fresh to the hobby and estimated to fetch more than $100,000 collectively later this summer.

A New York pawn shop owner pleaded guilty to serving as a fence for luxury items stolen from wealthy homes including Joe Burrow’s in nationwide burglary spree.

Set to sell for the third time in two years, a pair of Kobe Bryant game-used sneakers are heading back to auction, this time with a photo-match to his first NBA start.

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