More details on the Martin counterfeiting ring. Turns out it was "a small-time Rock band" trying to finance a national tour by selling the fakes. http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/crime-courts/article/Feds-Members-of-Texas-rock-band-financed-tour-5395853.php Further details with pics of the band posing with a pawn shop salesman here, http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/Alt-rock_band_sentenced_for_targeting_pawn_shops_with_fake_Martin_high-end_guitars.html

Before I moved to western Montana I called Texas home for more than a third of a century. In the area I lived, outlaw music was pretty popular and I admit to a taste for it myself. But this is a little outside the genre... :D