Feb 19, 2020

Kan. man accused of selling fake Tide detergent sentenced

Posted Feb 19, 2020 9:30 PM
Image courtesy Procter and Gamble
Image courtesy Procter and Gamble

LAWRENCE, KAN. (AP) — A Kansas man accused of selling fake Tide laundry detergent has been fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year of probation.

The Kansas attorney general's office say 44-year-old Brian Glenn, of Baldwin City, was sentenced after pleading guilty last week to one misdemeanor county of counterfeiting.

The state previously dismissed a felony counterfeiting charge just before the case was set to go to trial, citing the need for further testing of the laundry soap. In 2016, law enforcement agents and Procter & Gamble representatives had raided Glenn’s home, where he sold 5 gallon buckets of soap for $35 when the same amount of name-brand Tide would have retailed for about $75.

Glenn told an agent that when he sold the soap, he described it as "Tide like" or “Tide type.”