PHILADELPHIA, PA — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers recently confiscated 22,000 counterfeit Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers during inspections at the Area Port of ...

Officials say the fake stickers were shipped in two packages — one on Nov. 26, with 10,000 parcels, and another on Dec. 9 with 12,000 — from Israel to an address in Philadelphia.

Fake inspection stickers mask unsafe motor vehicles that place all motorists on our roadways in harm," Cleatus P. Hunt Jr., CBP’s area port director of Philadelphia, said in a statement.

CBP officers discovered the fake inspection stickers in two separate shipments. Ten-thousand were found inside a parcel that arrived Nov. 26, and 12,000 in one received Dec. 9.

CBP noted that using fake vehicle inspection stickers carries a penalty of up to $500 and potential jail time. However, no one has been arrested on charges related to the shipments.