Yes, folks, I’m calling this a RUMOR. Between the flippant comments about cellmates and sore rears in Dattebayo’s press release, the fact that none of the big sites covering the con - ANN, Japanator, Anime on DVD, etc. - have mentioned any such arrest, and that all of the blogs I’m finding seem to only parrot information from the aforementioned press release - in other words, no one seems to be claiming to have actually BEEN there. Not to mention Dattebayo has pulled pranks before.

That said, according to the release, five members of the Dattebayo were arrested a mere three minutes before their panel on fansubbing was supposed to occur on Saturday. According to DB’s website, they were due to be arraigned Tuesday but it got rescheduled to today (*cough*), and the staff pled not guilty to charges only described as having “stemmed from the illegal reproduction of copyrighted works.”

So yeah. PROBABLY not true, in my opinion.