MINNEAPOLIS (WJON News) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stopped 42 pallets of fraudulent gas engines from China from leaving Minneapolis-St. Paul’s Express Consignment Facility last week.

Officers say there were 1,134 engines total, with 27 engines a pallet, valuing about $1.34 million.

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These pallets, which were going to various U.S. businesses, were seized for lack of proper documentation and were turned over to Homeland Security.