Trade day raid nets 12 arrests






Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:14 pm

ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WAAY) - Authorities arrested a dozen people for selling counterfeit items at a trade day event.

Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin said during their raid Sunday authorities confiscated 3,000 DVDs and CDs, and about a thousand Otterbox and LifeProof phone and tablet cases.


Of the 12 arrested, Entrekin said eight of them have holds for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


Adrian Alonso Perez, 27, of Rainsville, Sergio Zaragoza Gonzalez, 28, and Julia Alonso, 23, both of Albertville, were each charged with one count of sale/rental of pirated recordings and one count of theft of trademark.


Marinara R. Mendoza, 35, and Pedro O. Alvarado, 41, both of Collinsville, Mohamed Ali Tawfik Abdelazim, 25, of Gadsden, Letica Martinea-Lopez, 43, of Anniston, Feliciano Mendoza, 29, of Fort Payne, and Liqin Zheng, 33, of Cumming, Georgia, were charged with one count of theft of trademark.

Juan Valladores Rios, 33, of Albertville, was charged with two counts of sale of pirated recordings.

Vicente Cazarez Castaneda, 46, of Collinsville and Martha Martinez, 41, of Crossville, were each charged with one count of theft of trademark/trade secret and two counts of sale of pirated recordings.


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