Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Reports: Tea Party leader arrested on piracy charges

A cached version of the Grand Strand Tea Party home page. The site was inaccessible today.

A leader of a South Carolina Tea Party group has been arrested for allegedly selling pirated software, according to reports.

Anthony Trinca, 61, is accused of selling versions ofMicrosoft Office, Windows, Adobe Photoshop, and Rosetta Stone language programs that were counterfeit, news site TG Daily reported today, one of several outlets to write about it. Trinca, president of the Grand Strand Tea Party, was arrested after someone to whom he allegedly sold software resold some of it and refused to give a refund when a buyer insisted it was pirated, the report said.

He and his 23-year-old son, Michael, were both charged with unauthorized use or trafficking in counterfeit trademarks and were released on $50,000 bond, according to the report.

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