The president and treasurer of a Chula Vista company were sentenced Sept. 18 to nine and eight months of home detention respectively for their roles in international trafficking in counterfeit cell phones.
The firm’s president, Michael Deitz, 40, and his father-in-law, Sidney Schwarz, 60, the treasurer, both of Chula Vista, admitted to importing cell phones that were made in China with counterfeit logos that bore the unauthorized names of Apple, Samsung, Motorola and Nokia.
The firm, OHR Inc., pleaded guilty to illegal importation and was fined $65,000 and placed on three years probation by U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
The company, Deitz and Schwarz agreed to forfeit $150,000. Deitz and Schwarz were each fined $3,100. The cell phones were not made by those companies.
