Frontline -- Operation Solar Flare, Port of Charlotte

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CBP Officer Joyce Brown tests the electrical connection on a Chinese solar panel to analyze its construction. Photo by Scott Sams

CBP Officers Joyce Brown and Robert Boswell lift a solar panel from its shipping carton as the import specialist team, Wilbert Jones, Laurie Pazzo and Jeff Sorrells, discuss sending a sample to the CBP lab. Photo by Scott Sams

A collection of violative imported solar goods found during Operation Solar Flare requiring additional duties. Photo by Scott Sams

Port of Charlotte team members, l-r, CBP Officer Joyce Brown, Senior Import Specialist Laurie Pazzo, Supervisory Import Specialist Wilbert Jones, and Import Specialist Jeff Sorrells, examine the back of a solar panel to better understand its construction. Photo by Scott Sams

Import Specialist Jeff Sorrells, left, unpacks a “solar suitcase” with CBP Officer Robert Boswell, right, and Senior Import Specialist Laurie Pazzo as part of Operation Solar Flare. Photo by Scott Sams

As part of Operation Solar Flare at the port of Charlotte in North Carolina, l-r, CBP Officer Robert Boswell, Import Specialist Jeff Sorrells, Senior Import Specialist Laurie Pazzo, and CBP Officer Joyce Brown examine solar products from China. Photo by Scott Sams

Import Specialist Jeff Sorrells explains electrical routing of solar panels to port of Charlotte teammates, l-r, Joyce Brown, Wilbert Jones, and Laurie Pazzo. Photo by Scott Sams