DJ Big Mike Arrested For Music Piracy

Michael Willcox better known as DJ Big Mike, was arrested last week and charged with music piracy. After a two year investigation, surveillance teams finally caught he and his brother in the act of distributing illegal CDs. More arrests are going to be made in the coming weeks.

The investigation began with the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that sent its own team of investigators to conduct a surveillance of a suspected “burner lab” at 27 Stetson Place in Danbury where pirated CDs were alleged being made and distributed, according to the affidavit.

The trade group is comprised of record companies that create, manufacture and distribute about 85-percent of all legitimate sound recordings made and sold in the United States, according to the affidavit. Three investigators from RIAA began the surveillance in Feburary of 2009.

The investigators allegedly followed a 1995 Ford Explorer registered to Willcox from his Danbury home to a residence at 12 George St., Mount Vernon, NY, which was suspected of supplying the materials and equipment used to manufacture recordable CDs and DVDs, according to the affidavit.

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  1. Sam I Am says:

    Fuck the RIAA

  2. Jimmy says:

    What a fool. You gotta be smart about that man

  3. surface 2 Air says:

    Big Whoop DeeDoo… why should I care? Bombs are being dropped on Libya and Palestine. Africa is being raped by China and Europeans… A million plus black men fill US prisons, the black murder rate is at a all time high, and black people are starving and struggling in the streets of AmeriKKKa.

    This story is not news… it is a failure!

  4. toad3527 says:

    never heard of him. good to see fellow white ;people on this site tho

  5. Errol Games says:

    They still arrest people for that? #WhereTheyDoDatAt

  6. THIS THAT BS.

    FIND A COP; FIND A BULLY.

    ARRESTING DJ’S FOR PIRACY, WHILE WEINER IS SENDING LEWD PICS, LUPE IS SAYING DUMB THINGS, AND RAP RADAR’S POST OF JOJO IS MAKING ME SICK.

    THIS WHOLE WORLD IS OUT OF ORDER.

    AND THAT TUPAC CONFESSION IS A HOAX… DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE.

    SOMEBODY IS GETTING CLOSE TO FINDING OUT THE REAL KILLER AND THEY’RE THROWING THE REST OF THE PUBLIC OFF WITH THIS REPORT.

    OH YEAH… I’M BACK AND BLACKER THAN EVER… HOWEVER…

    PLEASE START THE HATE ON MY COMMENT. THE TRUTH HURTS, I KNOW.

  7. Black Shady says:

    Aint he the fuck nigga who leaked Banks supposed-to-be sophomore album “The Big Withdrawal” ?

    FUCK THAT NIGGA!

  8. Soul_Assasin says:

    #spellcheck “caught he and his brother…”
    Where are your credentials?!

  9. Sam I Am says:

    @black shady

    wasnt that the groupies he fucked in the threesome that leaked that shit?

  10. RC says:

    That would be #grammar check, all those words are Spelled correctly….. lol…. I caught you pretending to be smart.

    They need to arrest the entire hood then, everybody and I mean everybody got blank CDs with Sharpie Writing on them.

    If they start checking those cheap bootleg iPods man, people are going down in droves.

  11. Gusto says:

    I mean it’s not like the RIAA raped thousands of artists for their hard earned talent, creativity and musical works in order to line their own fat packets. Nah, they don’t do that do they. SMH.

    Shit is weak and a waste of time. Talking about clutching at straws. The RIAA is on some B.S. Man up, quit whinging that you ain’t selling any CD”s and admit to us all that you are actually making an absolute shitload more money through super cheap online delivery of music & ringtones!

    G

  12. SMH8 says:

    Shit.. I live in mount vernon..

  13. dlist says:

    fatty needs to learn the hard way

  14. The most disturbing part of this is that taxpayers payed for the servalience of this bullshit.

    Who still buys cd’s anyway?

  15. @MrB0AT says:

    It’s going to be a bad summer. They still arrest people for this??
    http://twitter.com/MrB0AT

  16. Ryan says:

    That’s where Big Mike went. But they are arresting people for burning CDs??? Is this really cracking down on music? The world has moved digital, so should the RIAA

  17. Always Get The Bootleg says:

    Damn maybe I should stop downloading Hangover 2 but its got 20 minutes left, fuck it……. And its 2011 and this guy had a 1995 Ford Explorer and he’s a D.J.? No wonder why he was doing that shit

  18. Black Shady says:

    @ Sam I Am ; the story i heard/read was that the bitch sold it to Big Mike

  19. whitedelight says:

    LMAO @Always Get The Bootleg

    he was rocking it old school

  20. atlryder says:

    @Always Get The Bootleg

    You obviously missed the part of the article were it says he made $600,000 in 3 years (07-09) and his house was in his name. Explorer just to ride low and for deliveries I’m sure. When you cakin’ off like that, you on gonna be on the radar. He was part of a sweep a few years ago and laid low. Then came back. The rules and punishments of piracy have changed drastically since Obama got in office.

  21. N:Y:C:NIGGA says:

    Thats right nigga,stop downloading,share and steal music you punk.Koolie is next

  22. Sc_r says:

    I agree.. this is a waste of taxpayer money.. those same artists on those CDs would run to him to put their music out shit even some of those record execs.. they really got him because of that 600k he made if that’s their number the real one waaay higher

  23. […] Michael Willcox better known as DJ Big Mike was arrested last week for Music Piracy. Apparently, the investigation has been going on for almost two years now, and Surveillance teams finally caught he and his brother in the act of distributing illegal CDs. More arrests are going to be made in the coming weeks. The investigation began with the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group that sent its own team of investigators to conduc … Read More […]

  24. Sam I Am says:

    @black shady

    gotcha

  25. Always Get The Bootleg says:

    @ atiryder, no i didnt miss that part of the article, but i do appreciate you taking the time to give us the Frank Lucas aspect of his operation

  26. Jaymalls says:

    Shit… i live in Mt. Vernon too. That shit was like 4 blocks away from the crib!

  27. belly says:

    ha! after about 10 years of hearin about him, i just found out he’s white…. LMAO

  28. Black Shady says:

    ^

    Seriously me too! haha always thought it was a fat black guy LOL

  29. wickwickwack says:

    is that the same big mike that has been releasing D block music the last years
    he had hot tapes during the mixtape era

  30. Jack Mehoof says:

    lol nygga was driving a 95 Explorer…lol foh

  31. slick says:

    take notes mr cee this as an honorable way for a dj to get arrested

  32. novakaine says:

    I just find it funny they set up survelience in 09 an barely arrested him last week now if that isnt a waste of tax payers money

  33. dj says:

    Thanks for this informaiton, music piracy is all around us how do thing most mobile disco djs get their music

  34. GTFO says:

    They arrested him because he made too much money off of it. It’s a shame.

  35. Chan says:

    1st of all, who is this guy? is he famous or just some random guy? I know a shit ton of bootleggers. What makes this guy special

    2nd of all, for everyone who says that this is not news and that there are bigger problems in the world, don’t go to a music news website. That pisses me off so bad. Yes there are problems in africa. If you want to read about africa then go to cnn.com. If you want to read about music piracy and other related items then go to a site like rapradar. Yall are fucking stupid. This is news. It is music news.

  36. […] Big Mike was under surveillance since 2009 and arrested in 2011 for music piracy. It’s 2013, Big Mike has beat the case and now he is revealing why this whole thing came […]

  37. el jim chapo guzman says:

    Big is one of my favorite dj’s of all time…

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