Updated: May 13, 2012 8:05AM

A Northbrook man was arrested Thursday, accused of producing more than 8,000 counterfeit Motorola mobile telephones sold online and through businesses in Lincolnshire and Glenview.

Maxim Bolotin, 25, was arrested at Maximum Communications in Glenview, a business Bolotin owns, by Lincolnshire and Glenview police officers and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.

Bolotin, of 2825 Woodland Drive, was charged with two counts of possession of goods with a counterfeit mark and two counts of unauthorized use of a trademark name, all felonies.

Lincolnshire investigator John-Erik Anderson said Bolotin is suspected of operating businesses that ostensibly sold new Motorola phones that were actually fakes with the “M” logo slapped on.

“Pretty much everything about this phone was counterfeit, including the box that it came in,” Anderson said Friday. “What Max was doing was putting together counterfeit phones, and putting them up for sale as new.”

Bolotin owns another business at 600 Heathrow Drive in Lincolnshire, police said, and allegedly did his refurbishing or counterfeiting in these workshops.

Anderson said Bolotin first opened the Maximum location in Lincolnshire in 2008, and Motorola has long received complaints about deficiencies in “Motorola” products sold by Bolotin on the Internet.

Anderson said Motorola’s brand-security team would sometimes discover and try to stop an online sale.

“He also worked under a bunch of different company names,” Anderson said. “Any time they would challenge an auction of his, he would change his name.”

This method allegedly helped him move more than 8,000 fake phones, Anderson said. A police press release estimated Motorola’s loss at $250,000.

Authorities obtained a search warrant for Bolotin’s Lincolnshire business in November 2010, Anderson said, but needed another year and a half to collect enough evidence for an arrest. Anderson said authorities tried to contact potential victims personally, but found that it would take too long.

“There were so many that we had to send out a questionnaire,” Anderson said.

ICE became involved when it appeared that Bolotin was purchasing some of his parts from overseas sources, Anderson said. During the arrest, officers also reported finding marijuana in Bolotin’s office and car.

Bolotin’s bail was set at $500,000. He’s being held in Lake County Jail.