LAPD Arrests 3 in Raid on Alleged DVD Piracy Lab
Los Angeles police continued their crackdown on bootleg movie operations Tuesday, arresting three men for allegedly making counterfeit DVDs in a Los Angeles apartment.
The alleged lab was housed on the second floor of a building on 18th Street near Venice Boulevard and La Brea Avenue.
Inside, police and investigators from the Motion Picture Assn. of America said they found two DVD towers, each containing seven disc burners. Also found were boxes containing counterfeit artwork for films and about 1,500 DVDs featuring camcorder copies of such films as “The Bourne Supremacy,” “Spider-Man 2” and “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Arrested were Balfre Medina, 29; Rene Colorado, 34; and Henry Ibanez, 30.
The raid is the second in the last two weeks by a new anti-piracy unit formed by the LAPD. Police earlier raided a much larger operation on Burlington Avenue in the Pico-Union area. That lab had 40 DVD burners and nearly 6,000 counterfeit DVDs.
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