Federal customs agents Friday discovered a shipping container at the Port of Long Beach full of more than 20,000 pairs of counterfeit True Religion designer jeans.

The men's jeans from China were shipped to Long Beach, where customs agents examined the container and found the items to be illegal knockoffs, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent said.

The True Religion label on each pair of jeans was covered with another label that read, “Tough–Made in the USA” in an attempt to fool the agents.

Agents allowed the container through customs and followed the shipment to a Los Angeles warehouse, where police officers arrested the man.

He was charged with one count of trademark infringement. The jeans had a street value of roughly $1.5 million.

Federal officials also arrested another Southern California man on charges that he continued to sell counterfeit Levi jeans despite an injunction and $1 million judgment issued against him last year.

The 45-year-old Tarzana man (Los Angeles County), has been held without bail since his arrest last week.

According to the U.S. attorney's office, the man is accused of trying to sell the counterfeit jeans from his warehouse to an undercover agent, even after he closed his four L.A. stores. The jeans had been altered to look as if they were made by the San Francisco jeans company.