A federal judge in Santa Ana has sentenced a Yorba Linda businessman to a term of probation for three years and ordered him to pay a $4,000 fine for conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Following his arrest in February, Richard Alan Glavis–the owner of Superior Computer Gear (SCG)–acknowledged his guilt in a plea agreement that outlined how he shipped counterfeit Cisco Systems, Inc. products beginning in March 2008 through July 2010.
Glavis, who was born in 1972, had faced a maximum potential federal prison sentence of five years for his crimes.
]
But U.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford agreed with a Department of Justice
prosecutor that probation was an adequate punishment given that the
defendant, who has suffered a host of health woes, promised he won't
cheat again.
Glavis used Federal Express to mail more than 100 counterfeit parts, according to court records.
California corporate records show that he also owns iDeal Technology in Orange County.
Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.