Falou Mbake could be a statistic before too long.

In March, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted him for copying and selling more than 7,000 illicit music CDs out of his store, Best Deal Arts & Clothing, on Poplar Level Road.

Police pounced on Mbake, 31, originally from Mauritania, last August after someone complained he was copying and selling audio and videotapes of live recordings, as well as "authentic" clothing and accessories from such well-known companies as Karl Kani, FUBU and Fendi.

The jury cut him some slack, though, declining to indict on a count of distribution of obscene matter and promoting the sale of obscenity.

When they arrived on Aug. 27, 2003, police confiscated $457,140 in fake merchandise, court records show. In a search warrant, an undercover Louisville Metro Police detective wrote that he found a copy of an Isley Brothers CD selling for $5, a DVD of the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence bomb "Bad Boys II" and a copy of "Terminator 3," both selling for $10.

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