Sounds like a problem at the retail level , here come some new laws with very little enforcement .
"Sounds like a problem at the retail level, here come some new laws with very little enforcement"
Not at retail - it's a technically flawed business plan ...
If the phones were secured so that they could not be returned to "normal" use there would have been no problem.
The only true illegality I can see is when the phones were reprogrammed, either with copies of the original software or software that had been disassembled and re-coded. If the phones were not reprogrammed in this country, I can't see any law broken here at all.
Law enforcement was basically ignorant and jumped before they had their information correct.