Police: Victim helps nab guy selling counterfeit NBA finals tickets at Back Bay restaurant

Boston Police report arresting a California man on charges he was selling counterfeit NBA finals tickets.

Edward S. Lopez, 42, of Whittier, CA, was arrested around 8:30 p.m. yesterday at the PF Chang's on Dalton Street in a sting set up with the help of a somebody who realized the $1,400 worth of tickets she had earlier bought from him via a Craigslist ad were fake:

Officers then took the tickets to the TD Garden and through conversation with a Boston Celtic employee confirmed that the tickets were indeed counterfeit. Based on that information, detectives then had the victim re-contact the suspect for more tickets. Contact was reinitiated with the suspect who agreed to meet with the victim at 40 Dalton Street. The suspect showed up and was positively identified by the victim as the person who had sold her the counterfeit tickets. The suspect again produced three more tickets to sell at which time detectives approached the suspect.

Lopez was charged with fraud - larceny by scheme. He's scheduled for arraignment on Monday in Boston Municipal Court.