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Accused Leader of Counterfeit Motion Picture Network Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Traffic in Counterfeit Goods Guilty Plea Stems From First Joint IPR Investigation by ICE and Chinese Authorities GULFPORT, MS.- Michael A. Holt, Special Agent-in-Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans, and Dunn Lampton,United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, today announced that a man arrested on charges resulting from the first joint Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) investigation by U.S. and Chinese authorities has been convicted in federal court in Mississippi. Earlier today, Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, a U.S. citizen, entered a plea...

ACCUSED LEADER OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTERFEIT MOTION PICTURE NETWORK ARRESTED ON U.S. CHARGES AFTER EXPULSION FROM CHINA -- Arrest & Charges in U.S. stem from first joint IPR investigation by ICE and Chinese authorities -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi today announced that Randolph Hobson Guthrie III has been arrested in the United States pursuant to an 18-count indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi charging him with trafficking in counterfeit goods and money laundering. ICE agents arrested Guthrie at Los Angeles International Airport on...

Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families, is behind bars in Shanghai, waiting to find out if he'll be spending the next 15 years in a Chinese labor camp. The 38-year-old heir — who can trace his family roots back to Founding Father Robert Livingston and his family fortune back to Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps — has just been tried for video piracy and will soon learn the court's verdict. He was arrested last July in what U.S. Customs officials called their "first-ever joint law-enforcement investigation" with...