Sting operation at mall lands man selling counterfeit Duke-UNC tickets in jail

He is still being held on $2,500 bond

A man accused of selling counterfeit tickets for the Duke-North Carolina rivalry game on Feb. 9 was arrested and is being held in jail in lieu of a $2,500 bond, according to a report from the Durham Herald-Sun.

Durham Police Department spokesman Wil Glenn said in a statement that Andrew Frank Arvai placed an ad on Craigslist for the tickets and met with a Stubhub ticket broker with whom he had recently done business. Arvai, 24, was unaware that the transaction was part of a sting operation. 

The Stubhub broker called Northgate Mall security, where the two met to do the exchange, and alerted a police officer ahead of the transaction that Arvai was likely peddling fake tickets.

Arvai was charged with four counts of scalping tickets, four counts of counterfeiting a trademark, and four counts of obtaining property by false pretenses, according to the Durham Herald-Sun report.