4 Vendors Arrested in Sale of Pirated Tapes
Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives on Saturday arrested four Palmdale swap meet vendors and seized more than 4,500 pirated cassette tapes with a street value of about $13,500, authorities said.
The seized audiotapes represented a potential loss to the recording industry of $40,000 in legitimate sales, a representative of the Recording Industry Assn. of America told sheriff’s investigators.
The cassettes--unauthorized reproductions of copyrighted recordings--were being offered for sale at the Four Points Swap Meet in Palmdale, Deputy Jon White said.
Arrested were Rosalio Estrada, 40; Martha Estrada, 40; Marguerita Lara, 26, and Carlo Arellano, 31, officials said.
Their hometowns were not immediately known, White said.
White said the seizure brings to more than 130,000 the number of pirated tapes confiscated by the Sheriff’s Department so far this year.
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