PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – A 47-year-old Providence man faces deportation after he was convicted of selling pirated movies and music, the attorney general’s office said.

Sidikiba “Marcus” Magassouba was arrested in September and again on July 3 for selling or trying to sell pirated CDs and DVDs at a flea market. Police seized thousands of DVDs and hundreds of CDs in two raids, the attorney general’s office said.

Magassouba pleaded guilty last week to two counts of selling or trying to sell counterfeit music and movies. He was sentenced to five years of probation and given a five-year suspended prison sentence.

But he has been turned over the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and could be deported to Ghana, the attorney general’s office said.

The Recording Industry Association of America has identified Providence as one of 12 hot spots for music piracy, its spokeswoman Jenni Engebretsen said.

Michael Healey, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office, said an investigator for the Motion Picture Association of America bought a copy of the Disney movie “Eight Below” from Magassouba nine days after the film hit theaters.

“With the increasing sophistication of online piracy, people can tend to forget how big a problem piracy is on the street level,” Attorney General Patrick Lynch said.

“Unfortunately, it’s big business, accounting for billions of dollars a year.”