A famed sports memorabilia merchant was discovered dead as police carried out a search warrant into his allegedly fraudulent dealings.

Brett Lemieux, 45, is believed to have died just hours after a Facebook account posting under his name claimed the prominent sports memorabilia site he founded had sold millions of counterfeit items.

Lemieux, who resided in Westfield, Indiana, shockingly claimed that MisterManCave had sold more than four million fake items and surpassed $350 million in sales in a in a bombshell confession to a Facebook group page named ‘Autographs 101’.

Hours after the post was published under Lemieux’s name, police confirmed that he had died by suicide by way of a ‘self-inflicted gunshot wound,’ according to the New York Post.

‘There will be photos of this bust I’m sure of it,’ the 1,000-word message said. ‘If it was (F)anatics they may try to bury it all but the Westfield police department came today at 9am with semi trucks. I hope no one tries to hide this. I want to expose it all and how big of an operation you all knew was going on but grasp how big it was. I wish I could write a book about this.’

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