San Gabriel Valley : “POCAHONTAS” MEETS THE PIRATES
Four people are being held on suspicion of video piracy after a police raid in El Monte yielded 3,000 counterfeit blockbusters, including a not-yet-released video of the Disney hit “Pocahontas,” and “Forrest Gump.”
On Tuesday, El Monte police and investigators from the Motion Picture Assn. of America seized the pirated videos, duplicating equipment and packaging material from six businesses and homes in El Monte, Baldwin Park and La Puente.
A boarded-up store front in El Monte was “a working video piracy lab” with a bank of 29 video machines connected together, Detective Dennis Miller said. Also, police said, virtually the entire inventory at Donny Video in La Puente was counterfeit.
Police booked Donald Servan, 43, and his wife, Olga Servan, 41, of Baldwin Park, and Garcia Carasco, 39 and Jose Luis Corchuera, 36, of West Covina, on felony piracy charges, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison. They are being held on $25,000 bail.
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