Article: Confiscated shoes to end up on needy feet

NORMAL - About 320 pairs of knock-off shoes confiscated from a Bloomington store soon could be on the feet of impoverished people in Bloomington-Normal, Champaign, East St. Louis and Liberia.

"It's an incredible blessing for Calvary to have this quantity of shoes to distribute," said Josh Barnett, communications director for Calvary United Methodist Church, 1700 N. Towanda Ave.

County maintenance and sheriff's department employees carried stacks of boxes of shoes into the church Monday morning. The shoes were confiscated in December when deputies who were arresting a 46- year-old man on marijuana charges noticed counterfeit merchandise in the man's store.

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