Ispy_DssMafia
December 11th, 2001, 04:37 PM
El Segundo, CA, Dec 11, 2001 --
Continuing to intensify its enforcement actions against signal pirates, DIRECTV, Inc. announced today that it executed civil seizure and impoundment orders against 11 businesses in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Utah, California and Texas, including two sites that were manufacturing signal theft equipment.
The raids at 10 of the sites, conducted simultaneously by members of the DIRECTV Office of Signal Integrity, Engineering and Legal departments with support from federal, state and local law enforcement entities, netted thousands of devices used to steal DIRECTV®: programming, including parts, equipment and other materials used in creating signal theft devices.
The enforcement actions grew out of investigative work related to civil seizures executed last May against three locations in Orange County in Southern California that also resulted in the seizure of thousands of signal theft devices by DIRECTV.
Three defendants, who had used the facilities in Orange County to distribute pirate access cards, operated eight of the distribution centers that were the target of the most recent seizures.
The suspects, Art J. Deerey, Jr., of Naples, Fla., Li Sang, of Westfield, Ind., and Steve Hutt, a Canadian citizen, were believed to have been advertising and selling illegal theft devices through multiple Web sites, and using the facilities as fulfillment centers.
DIRECTV also executed search warrants at two manufacturing companies located in the Chicago area and in Southern California. American Precision Electronics, Inc. of Carol Stream, Ill., and Micro Contract Assembly, Inc., of El Toro, Calif., manufacturers of legal electronics products, were believed to have manufactured signal theft devices sold by the three defendants.
Ispy
Continuing to intensify its enforcement actions against signal pirates, DIRECTV, Inc. announced today that it executed civil seizure and impoundment orders against 11 businesses in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Utah, California and Texas, including two sites that were manufacturing signal theft equipment.
The raids at 10 of the sites, conducted simultaneously by members of the DIRECTV Office of Signal Integrity, Engineering and Legal departments with support from federal, state and local law enforcement entities, netted thousands of devices used to steal DIRECTV®: programming, including parts, equipment and other materials used in creating signal theft devices.
The enforcement actions grew out of investigative work related to civil seizures executed last May against three locations in Orange County in Southern California that also resulted in the seizure of thousands of signal theft devices by DIRECTV.
Three defendants, who had used the facilities in Orange County to distribute pirate access cards, operated eight of the distribution centers that were the target of the most recent seizures.
The suspects, Art J. Deerey, Jr., of Naples, Fla., Li Sang, of Westfield, Ind., and Steve Hutt, a Canadian citizen, were believed to have been advertising and selling illegal theft devices through multiple Web sites, and using the facilities as fulfillment centers.
DIRECTV also executed search warrants at two manufacturing companies located in the Chicago area and in Southern California. American Precision Electronics, Inc. of Carol Stream, Ill., and Micro Contract Assembly, Inc., of El Toro, Calif., manufacturers of legal electronics products, were believed to have manufactured signal theft devices sold by the three defendants.
Ispy