San Jose police literally stumbled upon a bootleg movie making lab, in east San Jose. They originally thought someone was robbing the place.
The front door was partially open, I yelled San Jose Police Dept," said Officer Chris Warren from the San Jose Police Department.
Once inside, officers found boxes and boxes of DVDs and copies of movies. It came out in theatres, just three days ago -- that's when they called the Motion Picture Association.
"It's a relatively large operation," said Roger Short from the Motion Picture Association of America.
This is considered a very sophisticated lab, namely because of this set up right here. The suspects were able to make 71 copies of just one movie. That means in just five minutes time, they had $700 dollars worth of product.
The bootleg movie business is booming. California's Motion Picture Association lost $6 million dollars last year, because of it.
In fact, the raid didn't slow down sales on the street. We found a woman selling fake movies in a shopping center, less than a half mile away.
"This is my third illegal lab that I've stumbled across in the last year and a half," said Officer Warren.
This being the largest. The products in the garage alone are worth half a million.
That 'doesn't' include the cases, labels, and DVD's waiting to be made and packaged; all of that brings a potential profit of another half million dollars.
"I knew one of these days they were going to get busted," said neighbor Tom Martinez.
Just about everyone suspected the same thing about the goings on inside that house.
But it didn't 'really' bother anyone. In fact, the four people police arrested were considered good, quiet neighbors.
