13 Arrested For Selling Unlicensed Cher Shirts At Concert

[matcom]

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The Pima County Attorney's Office is saying "I got you, babe" to 13 people arrested last month in connection with the sale of unlicensed Cher T-shirts at the pop diva's Tucson concert.

The accused shirt vendors include a convicted murderer and a convicted kidnapper, according to the indictment in Pima County Superior Court.

The 13 vendors, who include eight California residents, several homeless people and nobody with a permanent address in Arizona, are charged with assisting a criminal syndicate. They also face counts related to fraud and selling counterfeit merchandise.

All charges are felonies that carry the possibility of prison time; assisting a criminal syndicate is punishable by up to 3.5 years in prison for a first-time offender.

Police arrested the group on Jan. 19, the night Cher's second farewell tour stopped at the Tucson Convention Center. (It's a long goodbye: Cher's first farewell tour stopped here in 2003).

http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/61813.php

[chelsea0011]

1. Wasn't her final tour 6 years ago?

[rocktivity]

2. You may be confused with the Kiss annual farewell tour.

:eyes:
rocknation

[Orsino]

3. When will the Administration...

...finally take seriously the threat posed by unlicensed Chers?

[benburch]

4. Of course this is illegal.

And they knew it before they did it.

The only exception is when you print a NEWSPAPER on the T-Shirt about the star or band involved, which turns it into a free speech issue. There is a very objectionable person I know in Chicago who used to do this, and won the court fight, too.

[ugarte]

5. These people are obviously terrorists

I feel a little safer now.